Natural kiddies

**UPDATED** Linking up to Kelly's Korner "Show us your life- What do you feed your kids?" Mealtimes are so hit and miss with a 2 year old that I so glad we give him the extra bits and pieces. Other wise he would exist on pieces of toast, porridge and tinned spaghetti!

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Well now. Have had comments and emails about what we use with the kiddies and how truly natural we are so here's what we do. This post is about the kids and another will be about us.

**you may want to zone out and skip this post if you find the whole natural thing b.o.r.i.n.g,...snore....)**

So anyway.

When Rupi was born I couldn't breast feed him (for obvious reasons, like not actually giving birth) So I went to my doctor and we worked out a plan for getting the best possible nutrients into him. Then when my foray into breast feeding was disastrous with Blossom we implemented the same plan with her.

Also we are currently non-vaccinators (gasp)...... The pro and anti vaccinating debate raises people's blood pressure and so I am not really entering into it. I have had very adverse reactions to discussing it, even with people very close to me, so I am gun shy. This is what WE believe and is personal to us. You may have a very different view point and I respect that. This is what we decided for OUR family (only).....

I am not happy with what goes into vaccines and the fact that they put the body into an infammatory state. Plus the flip flopping of what vaccines are offered and how many and when (so young!), scares me. So we decided that while they are little, we won't vaccinate our kids. We looked at where we live (middle class area) and the fact that our kiddies are home based and so pose a low risk to themselves and others.

So, formula-fed, non-vaccinated kiddies meant we have really needed to focus on their immune systems. We have wanted to build them up. And I think we have largely succeeded. They are pretty healthy and have avoided most infant issues like ear infections etc.

We suppliment their bottles with:

1. A drop of liquid Zinc a day (for the immune system)
2. Drops of liquid Vitamin D- Rupi gets about 6 drops and Blossom half that (immune system again)
3. Probiotic powder (for their colons and keeping them healthy therefore can fight bugs)
4. I am also introducing Flax seed oil (for the fatty acids) as Blossom is on a very restricted formula and the doctor is not sure if she is getting enough of what she needs.
   
   

Oh, and also Vitamin C powder in water when they are a bit run down. They sip the drink over time so their bodies absorb more.

We try and make sure they eat lots of fruit. Rupi won't touch veggies so we load him up with fruit. It's a bit hit and miss as you can imagine with a toddler! Other than that they drink lots of filtered water and very little juice and no fizzy drinks. Very few biscuits and lots of plain rice crackers. I give them organic raisins (to avoid the insane amount of pesticides on raisins) also make my own ice pops with diluted fruit juice.

This sounds like we are super holy and live off sprouts and legumes. We don't! Rupi and I have lots of dates with cakes and fluffys as evidenced below. We eat sweets and chocolate and take aways too, just in smallish amounts. Dida is miles healthier than me and is The Food Police at our house! I am the "Sneaker in of Good Stuff" also known as the "Sweet supplier"!!