Juice or not to juice

I’m not really sure what the consensus is on giving juice to babies. Some recommend small quantities while to others it is a complete no-no. However after having a poo-ey baby for the last two weeks, overflowing laundry baskets, a broken washer dryer and going through 2×56 packs of nappies, I finally buckled in and gave James a home remedy that my MD suggested. MD not as in Doctor of Medicine but Mother Dearest. So if pomegranate juice was going to make my days a bit easier, pomegranate juice was what James was going to have.

I squeezed about two or three seeds on to a weaning spoon, strapped him on to his fathers lap and gave him a taste. He made the funniest face but nevertheless it went down almost immediately. Whether it has made him better, only time will tell – although at the time of writing this he has been asleep for two hours with no sign of a pooey nappy. Phew!