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The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids: How to Introduce, Advance, and Nourish Your Baby with First Foods (& Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)
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About The Smart Mom's Guide To Starting Solids: How To
From the Author Why It's Important to Start Solids Starting solids, or complementary foods, is an enormously important stage in your baby's first year of life. It sets the stage for future flavor preferences, appetite regulation, nutritional status, healthy growth and development, feeding skills, and more. Flavor preferences are started in the uterus, as amniotic fluid contains flavors based on your pregnancy diet. If you breastfeed your baby, your diet and the flavors it contains get passed to your baby through breastmilk. Starting solids is the next stage of flavor introduction, continuing the evolution of your baby's palate to accept and like a variety of foods. Your baby learns a lot about his appetite and how to regulate it through the feeding experience. The approach and style you use for feeding your baby can influence how well your baby learns to regulate his eating, as well as how responsive you are to his feeding cues.The nutrients your baby receives throughout the first two years of life helps your baby develop a healthy body and brain. We are learning that nutrients and nutrition are keys to future intelligence, immunity, and overall health. Learning to eat solid food is an important skill that transcends language development, food preferences, and a healthy relationship with food. There's a lot going on when embarking on this important stage with your baby! Product Description The One-Stop Nutrition Resource for Starting Your Baby on SolidsYour baby’s food journey and future health begins with his first bite. From tasting new flavors and textures to learning how to eat and self-feed, your baby is moving through one of the most important milestones of his life: Learning about food and how to eat.The Smart Mom’s Guide to Starting Solids is your step-by-step blueprint for starting baby food, advancing flavors and textures, supporting self-feeding, and getting your baby to the family table.You'll learn:The physical and social clues that signal babies are ready to start solidsThe nutrients babies need for brain, body, and bone growthThe inside scoop on how babies learn to eatTips for building healthy food and flavor preferencesA fail-proof way to support appetite regulationWays to encourage self-feedingThe most common infant feeding mistakes and how to avoid themHow to choose the best feeding method for baby (spoon feeding, baby led weaning, hybrid feeding)A month-by-month starting solids guideSample menus for each month and stage of eatingHow to prevent choking, food allergies and overeatingAnd all your baby feeding questions answeredWith The Smart Mom’s Guide to Starting Solids you’ll get the latest science, practical guidance, and implementation tips from pediatric nutrition expert and mom, Jill Castle, MS, RDN. Be sure to check out the Learning to Eat Baby Food Tracker & Journal as a companion to this book.Get clear and confident about feeding your baby! Review "As a new mama, I know how overwhelming starting solids is! It's hard to know what the best information is, especially with so many conflicting opinions on feeding. This is a great, science-based, yet easy to follow guide for all parents, both new and seasoned! I love how it takes you through chapter by chapter each thing you need to know to nourish your baby, feed them the right foods, meet their key nutrient needs and understand what is most important. When you have a new baby, reading a book can be a lot of work, but this one makes it easy to digest all the important information. Highly recommend!!!"~"This is a great resource for parents who want to do the best for their child. As a RDN I plan to recommend this book to clients as a guide they can refer to over and over. Jill uses research as her guide, which is what I would expect from a Dietitian, so you can trust her information to be the best available."~"I wish I could have read this book with my first child! This book gives a very good well-rounded overview of feeding infant
