The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids: How to Introduce, Advance, and Nourish Your Baby with First Foods (& Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)

RD Jill Castle MS

ISBN 10: 1732591806 / ISBN 13: 9781732591806

Published by Nourished Child Press September 2018, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids: How to Introduce, Advance, and Nourish Your Baby with First Foods (& Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)
• Publisher: Nourished Child Press September 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732591806
• ISBN 13: 9781732591806
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Parenting & Childcare

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Synopsis

The One-Stop Nutrition Resource for Starting Solids with Baby from 6 to 12 Months

Starting solids for baby has never been so...confusing! From selecting healthy baby food options to preventing food allergies and choking, The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids is your essential guide.

Written by pediatric dietitian and mom of four, Jill Castle, this comprehensive starting solids guide helps new parents (and seasoned moms and dads) navigate one of the most important milestones of early childhood.

You'll get an easy step-by-step blueprint for starting baby food (whether using the spoon, a baby led weaning approach, or both), advancing textures, introducing a variety of flavors, supporting self-feeding, and meeting all those important nutrient requirements.

The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids covers:

• How to know when baby is ready to start solids
• Nutrients for brain, body, and bone growth
• How babies learn to eat
• Tips to build healthy food and flavor preferences
• Timely introduction of food allergens to enhance prevention of food allergies
• How to encourage self-feeding
• Common infant feeding mistakes and how to avoid them
• The various feeding methods for baby (spoon feeding, baby led weaning, and combo feeding)
• A month-by-month starting solids guide
• Sample menus for each month and skills of eating
• How to prevent choking, food allergies, and overeating
• And all your baby feeding questions answered

With The Smart Mom’s Guide to Starting Solids, you’ll get the latest science, practical guidance, and implementation tips so you can get started with confidence, not confusion and self-doubt!

About the Author

Jill Castle is one of the nation's premier childhood nutrition experts. Known as a paradigm shifter who blends current research, practical application and common sense, Jill inspires audiences to think differently about feeding kids. From babies to teens, Jill takes a unique, "whole-child" approach to showcase food, feeding and childhood development as the secret ingredients to raising a healthy child. 

A sought-after speaker, advisor, and media contributor, Jill has inspired TEDx, American Academy of Pediatrics, WIC, university groups, and a range of nutrition, medical, government and parent audiences. Jill is on the Board of Advisors of Parents Magazine, and is scientific advisor to a handful of privately held child nutrition companies.

She is the author of Try New Food: How to Help Picky Eaters Taste, Eat & Like New Foods (February 2019), The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids, Eat Like a Champion and co-author of Fearless Feeding. She pens The Nourished Child blog, interviews experts on her podcast of the same name, and regularly contributes to US News & World Report's For Parents blog. She has appeared in The New York Times, WebMD, Fast Company, USA Today, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Fox and Friends, NBC-CT, and Parents Magazine. She and her husband have four kids, two dogs and live in CT.