Best Start in Life - Introducing Solid Foods

The government’s Best Start in Life campaign, delivered by the Department for Education and the Department for Health and Social Care, aims to help break down barriers to opportunity for every family, supporting parents and children from pregnancy through to age five and beyond.

Being a parent brings incredible moments of joy alongside natural worries and questions. Weaning is an important milestone in your baby’s life, but it can be difficult to know when to start, what to feed your baby and how much to give them. Best Start in Life offers simple, trusted advice to help you introduce solid foods to your baby’s diet, safely and confidently.

You can take the ‘Ready or Not’ weaning quiz to see if your baby might be ready to start weaning at around six months and learn more about the signs and common myths of introducing solid foods.

It may take 10 tries or even more for your baby to get used to new foods, flavours and textures. There'll be days when they eat more, some when they eat less, and then days when they reject everything. Don't worry – this is perfectly normal.

Below are a range of resources that can be used to deliver key messages around introducing solid foods to your audience and direct them to the Best Start in Life website

Direct your service users to BestStartinLife.gov.uk for answers to their complementary feeding questions.