Callum is 11 months and has lost his appetite I feel I’m in a real mess at the moment. Callum is eleven months and for the last few days has refused most of meals only taking 3-4 teaspoons of food and refusing all milk feeds. He has a runny nappy and it is bright yellow, sometimes it is very watery. During the days he is well in himself: happy, running about, no temperature and taking his normal daytime sleeps, but come to mealtimes he just changes and becomes fussy, crying and wingeing etc. My dilemma is that he waking 2.30am-3.00am, very upset and will not resettle without feeding where he…

My 11-month-old is still waking in the night for milk, but eats well by day Oliver, 11mths and weighing 24lbs never seems to be full. He is waking in the night starving, demanding a full milk feed before he will settle again. At night he sleeps in a room blackened with blinds and curtains. He wears a sleeping bag. He is in a good routine by day, settling himself for each nap and going down with a couple of minutes protest at 7pm. At night I am trying to use controlled crying, waiting 40 minutes before going in. Both my husband and I are sleep deprived which affects our work…

My 9.5mth twins are beginning to refuse to eat their meals without distraction and every meal takes a long time. What should I do? I need your advice on a subject that I am really confused about. I am sure most of the mothers have this dilemma that I have. With my 9.5 month old twins, feeding is usually a battle. I have followed Gina’s weaning guide to the letter, and it has been quite a success until the second stage. Breakfast at 7.30am: I mix Weetabix or Readybrek with 75mlsformula and different types of fruits such as pears and apples which are pureed, or peaches, bananas and kiwis which…

Any advice for a mum at the end of her tether? I seem to spend every spare moment of the day (and I don’t have many) cooking for my eight month old, Laura, who spits everything back at me. Then, when I open a jar of puréed baby food, she eats it as fast as I can feed her. Does it do her any harm to have the odd jar of baby food so I can keep my sanity? How frustrating for you! Do take heart from the fact that you are doing exactly the right thing in persevering with the food you’re offering, and make sure any leftovers go…

My daughter, now aged 7.5 months, started to sleep through the night after the 10pm feed when she was four months old. Following the health visitor’s advice, I started to wean her when she was five months old, and everything continued to go well with her sleeping and feeding until a month ago when she caught a really bad cold. Although she has now recovered from her cold, she is refusing most of her solids, and is waking several times in the night, often taking up to two hours to settle. My lack of sleep over the last few weeks has meant that my milk supply has decreased dramatically. I…

I have found some organic vegetable stock cubes which are low-salt. In the nutrition information on the package it says they contain ‘trace sodium’. Are these safe to use, as I don’t always have time to make home-made stock. My baby is almost 8 months. Most mums certainly don’t find the time to make their own stock (though I take my hat off to those who do). Well done for recognizing that stock cubes are usually high in salt and checking the nutrition information on the pack. ‘Trace’ means that they contain very little sodium (the chemical part of ‘salt’ that we’re concerned about in terms of health) and are…