• Your child’s development is progressing apace: she’s learning to walk! First, she carefully pulls herself up, then stands on her own feet - and before you've had a chance to draw breath, she's off. So watch out! Exactly when she braves that first step varies hugely from child to child.

• As soon as grown-ups start to recognize “Mummy” or “Daddy” amidst the general prattling, your child discovers the wonder of speech. She can make herself understood with the sounds she makes. From now on, she will make frequent use of this, and her vocabulary expands accordingly.

• Eating and drinking by herself requires a lot of dexterity. Once you take this on board you will find it amazing that children can manage this at one and a half years – and won’t mind a bit of food missing the target now and then.

• Once the first tooth appears, the remaining nineteen are swift to follow suit. Most children have nearly all of their milk teeth by the time they are three. As soon as you see that first little tip of white it’s time for daily tooth brushing. Ignore any protests – this is a must.

• Your child’s social behaviour will change fundamentally during her second year. She will see herself and others as discrete individuals and will begin to empathise with others, and to demand the same – sometimes at the top of her voice – from those around her.

• Her methods of play are also changing: she will look at books herself, fill and empty containers, build towers, and understand more and more the principle of cause and effect.

• There’s no way of rushing things, but your child might be able to control her bladder and sphincter muscles before she turns three. She might then decide that she wants to be out of nappies. But take things at her pace!

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As your child enters his second year, he can gradually start sharing meals with the rest of the family. You can now use an appropriate selection of dishes to get your child used to healthy eating. But what is an appropriate selection of dishes?

The food that you serve should, of course, cater for your child’s nutritional needs both in terms of quantity and ingredients. It should enable your child’s growth and further development, whilst also helping him resist infections. But it is just as important to make sure that the meals are tasty. Make sure your child gets all the important nutrients he needs by appealing to his palate and making eating fun.

If your child doesn’t like the taste of something straight away, offer it to him another day (and another day after that...). As the proverb goes: appetite comes with eating – or else some other time. You should never force your child to eat something, or to clean his plate. Your child (still) knows very well when he’s had enough to eat. Your child’s food consumption will go up and down depending on his personality, his mood on that particular day and his developmental phase

Children who are brought up to eat a healthy and varied diet will have a firm foundation for the rest of their lives. For it is indeed true with respect to food that a tree must be bent while it is young. Research shows that if a child has been introduced to and enjoyed something at an early stage, he will continue to like it later.

Vegetable food products should therefore form the basis of your child’s diet and should be included in every meal, together with modest portions of meat and some benign fats in small doses. It is important for children to have plenty to drink, just like adults. 

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As close as it gets to

the mother’s breast:

the orthodontic NUK bottle teat.

There are times when a mother is simply unable to breastfeed. So it is all the more important to ensure that breastfeeding and bottle feeding can be combined with each other perfectly without your baby noticing a major difference. The key is finding the right teat. NUK therefore combines all orthodontic benefits with a feeling as close as possible to the mother’s breast.

There are times when a mother is simply unable to breastfeed. So it is all the more important to ensure that breastfeeding and bottle feeding can be combined with each other perfectly without your baby noticing a major difference. The key is finding the right teat. NUK therefore combines all orthodontic benefits with a feeling as close as possible to the mother’s breast.

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Inspired by nature:

the original NUK teat shape.

The mouth plays a key role in the healthy overall development of your child. Breathing, eating, sensory perception – all these things require perfect coordination between the jaw, tongue and lips. Breastfeeding is the perfect training for this from birth onwards. At its mother’s breast, a baby learns to coordinate the movements, to strengthen its muscles and to prepare its mouth for the tasks to come - teething, chewing and, last but not least, speaking.

The orthodontic NUK teat was developed based on this knowledge. Even if you are not supposed to breastfeed (any more), the teat supports your baby as naturally as possible.

The medical basis behind this product was developed by the dental practitioners Prof. Dr. Dr. Balters and Dr. med. dent. Müller. They noticed first of all that the mother's nipple changes shape when the baby feeds and only then is optimal coordination in the mouth achieved. And this special asymmetrical shape is used as the model for all NUK teats to this very day.

NUK has researched the shape right down to the smallest detail over many decades, developed it further and constantly adapted it in light of the latest medical findings. No other teat comes as close to mimicking the breastfeeding process and supports healthy mouth development so naturally as the original from NUK.

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The perfect training

for all mouth functions

Babies feel a natural urge to suck. This urge is satisfied naturally during breastfeeding. But there’s no reason you can’t help satisfy this urge between meal times too with a NUK dummy. Its shape is based on a mother’s nipple during breastfeeding and adapts ergonomically to the baby’s jaw. It is soft and flexible with enough room for the tongue and places no unnecessary pressure on the jaw and teeth.

This means that NUK dummies not only soothe your baby, but also promote healthy mouth development. While your baby sucks, it is training its muscles and perfecting the coordination between the jaw, palate, tongue and lips. This helps support breathing, eating and speech development and effectively prevents misalignment of the teeth.

NUK Size Concept

The right size for each age group:

We recommend that you should please bear in mind your child’s individual stage of development when buying

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