Don’t mind the mess.
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It’s important for babies to be in control of the pace and amount they eat.
A Middle Bronze Age child from the Lebanese site of Sidon buried in a large jar. Smaller ceramics were placed with the dead as funerary objects.
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Researchers used advanced chemical analyses to study breastfeeding in some of the world’s first farming communities.
Sleeping like a baby.
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A new study claims that an early start on solids can help babies sleep – but established research has proven the risks outweigh any benefit.
Assessing a tasty treat.
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Three academics analyse the evidence for and against baby-led weaning.
Babies’ milk teeth carry their early food history, and this remains stable for tens of thousands of years.
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We know at least six months of exclusive breastfeeding is the best start to a baby’s life. What’s amazing is it seems ancient hominids knew that too. In a paper published today in Nature, we analysed the…
What is seen as a staple food for many babies may be detrimental as researchers have found that babies who were spoon fed…