{"id":568,"date":"2025-03-31T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/healthvisitors\/?page_id=568"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:07:15","slug":"eating-weaning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/healthvisitors\/west-lothian-health-visitors\/useful-information\/eating-weaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating\/Weaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group caringbox2 has-background\" style=\"background-color:#954B6A\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignfull has-text-align-center\">Eating\/Weaning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-standard-white-color has-text-color\">&#8220;We\u2019ve all been there \u2013 mealtimes can be hard work. Sometimes your kids will have one idea of what\u2019s good for them and you\u2019ll have another. 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