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Your Ultimate Prenatal Supplement Guide
đź’ˇ Why Supplements Matter in Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a time of incredible growth and change for both you and your baby. While a balanced diet provides most nutrients, some vitamins and minerals are especially important in supporting early development, brain growth, and long-term health. That’s why tailored supplementation is recommended alongside good nutrition, not instead of it.
My Child’s Gentle Food Exposure Diary - For ARFID
Children with fussy eating or ARFID may need many gentle, repeated experiences with a food before they feel safe enough to taste it. This diary is designed to help you track small steps of progress using the SOS Approach to Feeding’s 32 steps to eating.
Food Exploration Tick List & Sensory Guide
This exploration guide can be used alongside any of your food exposure activities. It follows a gentle, child-led SOS Approach to Feeding and helps structure low‑pressure sensory steps during food play. Children can move up and down the steps with no expectation to taste – exploring through sight, smell, touch and sound counts as real progress.
Exploration Step | Prompts / Questions | Notes |
Touched it with a finger | What does it feel like? Soft, rough, bumpy, smooth? | |
Held it in my hand | Is it heavy/light? Warm/cold? | |
Smelled it | How big of a smell is it? What does it smell like? | Sweet, sour, spicy, salty, savoury, bready, plant‑y, nutty, bitter |
 Brought it to my lips | How does it feel on your lips? Tickly? Cold? | |
Touched it with my tongue | How big of a taste was it? How does it taste? | |
Licked it | Would you like to try a tiny or a big lick? | Sweet, sour, spicy, salty, savoury, bready, plant‑y, nutty, bitter |
Had it in my mouth | What textures can you feel? Squishy, crunchy, smooth? | |
Chewed/bit it | Does the texture change as you chew? Does it get softer/harder? | |
Swallowed it (if ready, no pressure!) | Did the flavour change when chewing? |
10 Gentle Strategies to Reduce Mealtime Stress
Mealtimes can feel overwhelming when you’re supporting a child with fussy eating.
It’s easy to feel pressure for your child to eat, but mealtimes don’t need to be battles.
These strategies are designed to help you take the pressure off, reduce stress for both you and your child, and create a calmer, more positive environment around food:
Eating well in pregnancy isn’t about perfection or following strict rules - it’s about giving yourself and your baby the best possible start.
The First 1,000 Days: How Nutrition Shapes Your Family’s Future
The first 1,000 days - from conception until your child’s 2nd birthday - is a unique window of opportunity.
What you eat, drink and do during this time has a powerful influence on fertility, pregnancy, and your little one’s growth and development.
And here’s the exciting part: science shows that epigenetics - the way our environment and lifestyle influence how our genes work - makes nutrition and lifestyle choices modifiable factors. In other words, the choices you make now can shape your baby’s health long into the future.
Stage 1: Preparing for Pregnancy (Fertility)
Why it matters:Â Good nutrition supports ...
