Ella Mills

I have to say, caveat, my children were the world's worst wieners.

One of them in particular just refused anything and everything.

Because you did, you had to do, I remember you had to do the baby led, which made me so anxious.

She just refused.

She's so independent.

She's still like that.

But like she literally, I'm not joking, to the extent to which she categorically refused to take anything off a spoon from me was,

One of my girls basically didn't eat until she was like two.

Yeah, exactly.

She would literally chew on a soldier of toast and that was it.

It was very stressful.

It was really stressful.

I think the thing that's interesting here is obviously when you have a baby growing, then they are getting these flavor compounds from the foods that the mother eats and that passes through the amniotic fluid, passes into the amniotic fluid around the baby.

The babies swallow, they inhale this fluid in the womb, and it means they're effectively experiencing these flavors and smells before they're born.

And what they saw is reset, is they're at these different bits.

So like 32 weeks, they're exposed to kale.

They're kind of grimacing at the bitter taste.

By 36 weeks, when they tried it again,

they grimaced less, and they started to accept the flavor.

And I think, obviously, this was quite a small-scale study.