The Joy Of Discovering First Foods With Baby Bellies

The relationship with your baby is a very special one. It’s formed during a year of ‘firsts’ and utter dependence – a time for simplicity and softness, yet new discoveries for both parent and baby. The journey for each family is undeniably unique, yet each family will face similar joys and hurdles as your little one grows, learns and develops. Whether it starts with a fussy eater or not, when it comes to feeding, this can be a time full of laughs, discovery, mess and joy.

In this information age, it can be daunting to navigate the sheer amount of information about nutrition, baby’s first foods, baby-led weaning, baby finger foods and feeding methods.

Nurturing is natural

Nutrition can be complicated, but nurturing is natural. Little Bellies believes in the harmonic alignment of considered nutrition and wholesome, organic foods while embracing mess, discovery and play throughout a baby’s first year.

The Baby Bellies stage (0-12 months) is one of the most crucial and precious developmental stages. The Little Bellies philosophy aims to support parents through the highs and lows of nurturing in a natural way, so those first milestones can be magical.

Baby’s first foods

From about 4-7 months, your little one will be able to move his or her head from side to side and will slowly be learning to sit up without support. That’s when they might be ready for purées.

Simple Spoonfuls Organic Baby Bowls are for tiny taste buds from 6+ months at the very beginning of their lifelong food journey. This range of baby grade organic veg, fruit and grain purées introduce budding eaters to their first flavours and texture without added sugar, salt or artificial ingredients.

Our Baby Bowls have been designed to support natural child development, helping little ones develop essential spoon-feeding mechanics, aid developmental oral and motor skills as well as contribute to positive food associations and encourage mindful eating practices and behaviours.

Do what’s natural!

From 7-9 months, your baby will be adjusting to more lumpy foods and will be ready to try new shapes and textures.

Our Tasty Textures range is full of delicious organic baby snacks, such as easy-to-eat dissolvable baby finger foods, organic rusks and textured purées. These can provide an easy transition to more solid foods if your little one has already been enjoying puréed foods.

Tasty Textures contains no added sugar or salt and no artificial nasties; it simply introduces subtle new flavours and experiences for mini mouths. The soft shapes of our baby snacks are perfect for your baby to hold in their tiny hands. Snacks are a great way to begin developing your baby’s motor skills by perfecting their pincer grip and coordinating complex food shapes in their mouths; all so important for a developing eater!

We encourage letting your baby explore the flavours and foods that they love the most, and at this stage, it’s a good idea not to introduce too many foods or flavours at once.

Exploring food textures

From 10- 12 months, your baby’s palate will change subtly, and slowly their tiny taste buds will be able to handle more developed flavours and textures. The snacks come in smaller pieces too, which means they’re that much trickier for baby to hold, helping to establish a more precise pincer grip; and our snacks are so tasty, they won’t want to let go!

Our More to Explore range was developed to cater for new edible adventures in shape, texture and appearance, to complement and gently encourage your little one’s growing independence. Like tasty textures, it contains no added sugar or salt and no artificial nasties yet still has enough natural flavour to keep your baby interested.

Nurturing naturally

However you decide to teach your baby, your food journey together is uniquely individual. Little Bellies aims to help make healthy eating a breeze, and encourages your little bundle of joy to discover new tastes and textures in a wholesome way.

“Baby Bellies” organic products are part of the Little Bellies brand. They are always organic, contain no added sugar or salt, and no artificial nasties. To learn more about our “Baby Bellies” range and how it encourages the development of your little one’s tiny palate, see here.