The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids: How to Introduce, Advance, and Nourish Your Baby with First Foods (& Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)
Language: English
Published by Nourished Child Press, 2018
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Your baby's food journey begins with his first bite. Starting solids is a milestone that sets your child's future foundation of health. Yet, introducing first foods is one of the most confusing and daunting tasks of new parents. Never before has there been more baby food options, feeding methods and scientific recommendations -- all of which can lead to confusion, doubt, and even fear.What are the best first foods? When can my baby start solids, how do I prevent food allergies, and what should I avoid giving my child? How do I prevent choking and how do I help her try new foods? How can I help make the eating experience nurturing, positive and nourishing? The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids answers all your questions. You'll learn about critical nutrients that help the brain and body grow and their best food sources. You'll find out the best feeding methods for self-regulated eating, setting a positive relationship with food. The Smart Mom's Guide will give you the step-by-step guidance you need to introduce a variety of flavors, textures, and eating experiences so that your baby enjoys eating, while hitting all the age-appropriate milestones and nutritional requirements throughout the first year.By the end of this book, you will be a Smart Mom, knowing what to feed your baby, how to do it, what your overall goals should be, and why the first year of eating is very important to your baby's health, growth, intellect and relationship with food.…
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- 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)
- Author
- Jill Castle
- Publisher
- Nourished Child Press
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1732591806
- ISBN 13
- 9781732591806
- Series
- Book 2 of 2: The Smart Mom's Guide
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!
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About the Author
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.
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