My 9-month old son has developed a new habit - eating. Apart from eating food he also eats lots of other things ... here's my top 10 list of things he has been trying to eat lately: ... read more >>

I found this report on a study done on the called effects controlling fathers may have on their daughter possibly having an eating disorder.

Apart from there being no mention of the daughters mother being of any blame to why their daughter maybe anorexic, I know several young women who’s mothers still say to them, "your too fat" or "You don't need to eat that"...

What about the media?!? The pressure on young girls to look like the celebrities in the magazines, movies and on stage singing is huge its what is made out to be beautiful, if your skinny too you'll fit into the celebrity life style...

A father's relationship with his daughter may influence whether or not she will develop an eating disorder, researchers from Australia have found. ... read more >>

I was really looking forward to the day when we could finally start feeding our little one other foods (other than breast milk) … and he took to it really well! The problem is at the other end though – we’re back to the constipation scenario now. After the usual trial and error process we found out that baby rice really isn’t great for our baby’s bowel movements.

We’ve had a history of constipation with Noah over the last few months. Apparently it is unusual for breast fed babies to have this problem but well … it just happened. Fortunately it usually cleared again after a week or so and using prune juice certainly helped. As soon as we started with baby rice that strategy went down the toilet … or actually it didn’t. The stuff is literally like glue – no matter how much water you add it always ends up sticky after a given period. I tried this out by just letting it sit in a cup with water for a while and baby rice really has an amazing capacity to absorb water. Obviously it keeps doing that even after it’s been swallowed! ... read more >>