julieb

I have now written a total of seven books and guides. Eight if you count my first starting solids guide which became a book. I have also completed a Doctoral thesis that took me four years during which I gave birth to both my sons. I am now 33 weeks pregnant with our third baby having gone through two miscarriages over this time as well. I am an author. It is my dream and enables me to fulfill on my lifelong mission. With a background in the cut-throat world of academia I had no illusion that being an author would be an easy path…. but I did not expect the level of corruption and the cruelty I have received. I am still working through the impact of how I have been treated especially over the last year. As I mentioned in my preview post, I have kept waiting for the ‘right’ time to share this. I have wondered if I even want to share this. Will it just bring everything up? Will it come across like I am just complaining? That it was really my fault? Should I just be grateful because not ma...

Our Nourished Team is very lucky to have the expertise of highly qualified, evidenced-based nutritionists & dietitians who also literally walk-the-talk in feeding their own little ones. Senior Wellington consultant Brianna Tekii, has recently gone through the very process many of you have or are about to in starting solids with her gorgeous girl Elosie. Brianna is a Registered Dietitian with her Master's in Nutrition and Dietetics and Post Grad in Public Health and Hauora Māori. In this blog she shares her experience of starting solids The Nourished Baby way over the first five weeks with Elosie. ****** I had lots of advice about Eloise starting solids, even as a Senior Nutrition Consultant and a Registered Dietitian. This advice came from everywhere, friends, family, strangers and even my husband (sorry my love, but it's true!). Although this advice was all well-meaning, it was also contradictory both to each other as well as to the most up to date evidence of starting sol...