There’s little doubt that the best way to encourage healthy eating is to offer a varied nutritious diet from the start, but when it comes to snacks and finger foods for babies, it can be hard to find something that’s tasty but not packed with sugar

As the nights are drawing in, little toes will be getting cold!Although it's a good idea to encourage small children to leave their feet free and unadorned as often as possible, crawling, toddling and even just chilling out on the sofa after

enjoyed as a child so this is a useful prompt. Sharing books at the earliest stage encourages a culture of enjoying books that children will take with them into toddlerdom.At first your child will just enjoy you reading the nursery rhymes to her

that thinking to ground level, providing a 3x4ft surface for your baby to play on, encouraging him to roll over, lie on his tummy and sit up on his own, all while scrutinising the bold geometric patterns. It’s made of EVA (think trad-style flip-flops), so it

sleep, and encourages good digestion and the absorption of vital nutrients. This is particularly relevant when it comes to car seats which play such an important role in protecting babies from injury in car accidents. At the Aprica Central Research

and believed to occur once in every 2000 vasectomies.A vasectomy does not prevent a man from having full sexual intercourse but it prevents the sperm from travelling from his testicles to his penis. Those who choose to have the operation are encouraged to think

support the move include some women who have a family history of early breast cancer and who would like the chance to rule out passing that gene down to their children.It is a difficult subject, especially as it might encourage parents who do not need

The Food Standards Agency is meeting tomorrow with the aim to approve a 12-week public consultation into whether to add folic acid to bread.Folic acid cuts the risk of fetal neural tube defects such as spina bifida, and women are actively encouraged

and possibly meditation to get through labour rather than lying on a bed to give birth) and those who might hire a birthing pool.Given the recent outcry from the Royal College of Midwives that too many women are having caesarians and epidurals, encouraging

quickly than those on breastmilk, which can make breastfed babies look like they are not thriving, when the reality is that their nutritional needs are been served much better.After a baby is born, parents are encouraged to take their child to their nearby