From Milk to Solids

Making the transition from breast milk to solid foods is an important step forward in your childs life. The World Health Organisation recommends introducing other food (in addition to the regular breast milk feeding) after your child is about six months old.
Between the ages of 6 and 8 months you should introduce at least two daily feedings of solid foods which are of the right texture and consistency for your child to consume.
This amount should be increased to three or four feedings daily after age 8 months and from one year, you should also offer your child two nutritious snacks throughout the day in addition to the regular food.

There is a whole range of foods which you can use to start your baby on - popular first foods include brown rice cereal (powdered and cooked), pureed bananas, pureed sweet potato and pureed avocado or applesauce, though there is quite a variety of puree's to choose from.
Once your child has gotten used to very runny puree, you can start to slowly thicken the food over time.

Smiles all around

Making your little one smile is just about the most enjoyable thing you can do when you have a child. Making them smile, laugh and giggle can brighten your day as well as hers (or his).
Here are a few things you can do to really get your child giggling;

1. Blow some bubbles! Babies love bubbles, so grab a bottle of bubble soap and blow a few around your child and watch as they laugh and try to catch the bubbles!
2. Do some painting! A great way to do some finger painting that wont be bad if your child puts their hand in their mouth, is if you mix some food colouring with yoghurt or cream - all the fun and mess of finger paint with a great taste too!
3. Put on a puppet show! Every parent should be able to put on a few hand puppets or socks and make some funny voices, try doing this with bright and colourful characters.
4. Go down to your local park. Babies love swings and see-saws, or anything that lets a little wind through their hair. Make sure your baby always knows you're their by smiling and laughing with them so they feel safe and secure, and don't forget to have fun yourself!

Kids Garden Party Ideas

 Keep them entertained in the sun with our fab garden party ideas!

Tennis and outdoor sport.

For the youngest of your family, try a foam ball and a childrens racket to build co ordination.  Trikes are great for outdoor fun in the sun. Trampolines are guaranteed smiles all round for kids and grown ups alike! Make sure to get safety guards for the outside of the trampoline to prevent bouncing off the edge.

Picnic in the Garden!

Do they love to help out in the kitchen? Let the kids have fun making finger food for outside – sandwiches, crisps, pineapple sticks, sausage rolls, fruit slices, chocolate buttons and more. Lemonade and fruit juice with ice are great thirst quenchers. Put them in the fridge to keep cool until they’re needed!

Paddling pools

For a real scorcher, get the paddling pool out and let your babies float around with plenty of toys, boats and bath ducks. Great way to enjoy the sun and stay cool. Kiddisave have some great bath toys also suitable for paddling pools in our toys section of the web store.

Hippychick Waterproofs

If it starts raining, as it inevitably does in Britain, try the Hippychick all in one suits for your toddlers to enjoy the garden whatever the weather. Cute, reasonably priced and totally waterproof to keep them warm and dry.

Wash it all down with Jelly & Ice Cream!

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Kiddisave Competitions Coming This Week!

We have two fantastic new competitions coming up in the next week!
The closing date for the Jubilee giveaway – which involves just liking Kiddisave on Facebook and sharing our lovely pic to your wall – is Wednesday and a winner will be announced at 11am Wednesday!

Celebrate the Jubilee double weekend with Kiddisave – like and share our photo to be in with a chance of winning £100 in Kiddisave vouchers!!

Coming up next week, our latest photo competition…Watch this space for more details!

Have a fantastic Bank Holiday weekend!

~ Kiddisave

Summer at Kiddisave!

We have some fantastic deals for you this summer. With the long summer evenings drawing out, the scent of summertime is truly in the air. Many of us are dreaming of summer holidays or “staycations”. With this in mind, make sure you have the all-important baby products for the season.

Here’s a selection of just some of the fabulous products for you and baby this summer!

Red Kite Push Me Lite Buggy and Parasol

This lightweight, easy to navigate, attractive buggy is currently at half price in our webstore, making it ideal for those summer days. It’s cute stripes and colour scheme make it affordable yet a good looking piece of equipment, ideal for summer holidays and the beach!

The parasol included in this great price is the essential piece of kit to protect your baby from sunburn and skin damage.

Splash About Lifejackets and Waterproof Nappies

In this weather, where better to take the kids than for a cooling swim! Babies will love to splash about in your local pool with the complete Splash About range to keep them safe and clean. Asides float jackets and swim nappies are the float suits, a fantastic innovative design to keep your baby above water, encouraging independence in the water and mobility.

Sunshine Kids Sun Stoppers

These kid size blinds are ideal for the back seats of long car journeys in direct sunlight, protecting delicate skin from UV glare. At a brilliant price for an essential piece of safety equipment, these blinds are a must for moms and dads.

Sunshine Kids Buggy Travel Pal

This piece of storage equipment is ideal for long car and pushchair journeys with the kids, to keep all toys, drinks, books and puzzles in one place! This invaluable tidy is also competitively priced for a quality and long lasting piece of equipment.

The nomad baby!

Kiddisave stock a range of products suitable for travelling with kids. These include sunshades for the car windows, harnesses and reins for toddlers, toilet training devices and toys specially for on the move babies.


Sunshades

Sunshades for your car window come in a range of fun designs and can be invaluable for protecting sleeping babies and children against the glare of potentially damaging UV rays on sensitive skin. The Outlook brand of sunshades stocked by Kiddisave are designed specially to cover the entire car window for maximum sun protection and come in different shapes depending on your car.

Harnesses

Kiddisave stock a range of Clippasafe harnesses suitable for toddlers and babies learning to walk, from when they take their first unsteady steps to when they are dashing off all over the place and taking you with them. Choose Clippasafe from Kiddisave for quality and a great range of colours!

Toilet training

There are a range of toilet training products for kids in Kiddisave’s catalogue, featuring the My Carry potty to encourage independent toilet training. This is a portable, easy clean, brightly coloured potty with a handle for kids on the move!

Toys

Tiny Love do a take a long arch to be fitted to a carrycot, featuring an array of toys to entertain your baby. Babies and young children will be enraptured by the colourful playful toys.

Visit Kiddisave today to find out which products could suit you on the go – the one stop baby shop!

Baby Photo Competition 2012!

Kiddisave held a photo competition throughout March and April 2012, asking Facebook fans to upload their best baby photos and “like” their favourites in the Facebook album.

The competition was ferocious in the voting, with the first prize of a fantastic £150 Kiddisave voucher going to Karolina Bruchal with a bathtime pic of her baby Vincent aged 16 months!

We also hosted an Easter Baby Bonnet Competition in Easter week, inviting Facebook fans to upload pics of their baby in Easter bonnets for a chance to win a Babybjorn Bouncer worth £114.99! The lucky winner of this competition was Jane Mitchell, winning a lovely baby bouncer for her newest arrival!

Congratulations to the winners of our competitions and like us on Facebook to keep up to date with our next competitions!