The Complete Guide to Baby Self-feeding: Solid Food Solutions to Create Lifelong, Healthy Eating Habits

Baby Self-Feeding gives parents an easy to understand guide on introducing solid food into their baby's diet, complete with tips, tricks, recipes, and key developmental information.

Your baby's relationship with food starts with her first bite. Set your child up for lifetime of healthy, adventurous eating by letting her or him lead the way!

Baby Self-Feeding puts your child in the driver's seat as you help to establish a positive relationship with what's on their plate. This book helps you encourage a confident and healthy eater at an early age by presenting you with:

• Valuable self-regulatory skills
• Mindful eating strategies
• 25 baby-tested and approved functional food recipes
• Smart-start purees and healthy finger foods, and how to introduce them
• Ways to avoid picky eating
• Methods for avoiding food allergies and reducing choking hazards
• Mess-free tips for dining out

Baby Self-Feeding offers practical solutions, step-by-step ways to transition your baby to early solid foods and smart-start purees. Homemade baby foods avoid the excess sugar, sodium, dyes, and fillers found in commercial products - plus, they're easy to make even if you are short on time. Let your baby learn to eat at her own pace with Baby Self-Feeding.

Nancy Ripton is a writer and editor with two decades of experience in consumer publishing, writing for publications such as Pregnancy, Fit Pregnancy, More, Elle, Glamour, Men's Fitness and many more. She has worked as an editor-in-chief of various magazines including Oxygen, glow and (her current position) at Inside Fitness Women. With a background as a personal trainer and fitness program director, Nancy has always been passionate about health, fitness, nutrition and learning new ways to strive towards optimal health. Nancy is a mother of three, and co-founded JustTheFactsBaby.com after having her first child nine years ago. She has become a go-to online voice for trusted, well-researched parenting advice. This is her first book.

Melanie Potock, MA, CCC-SLP is a pediatric feeding specialist and certified speech language pathologist. Her practice focuses on the family and teaching the fundamentals of parenting in the kitchen. Melanie has over 15 years of experience helping babies, children and teens learn to eat a variety of healthy foods. The spectrum of kids on her caseload includes children with significant medical issues to the garden-variety picky eater. Melanie's extensive knowledge of how children learn the developmental process known as "feeding" and her joyful approach in supporting the whole family on their feeding journey is the perfect combination and leads to happier, healthier mealtimes for everyone. Melanie is the coauthor of Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater and author of Happy Mealtimes with Happy Kids.