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Baby Self-Feeding: Solutions for Introducing Purees and Solids 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
Valuable self-regulatory skillsMindful eating strategies25 baby-tested and approved functional food recipesSmart-start purees and healthy finger foods, and how to introduce themWays to avoid picky eatingMethods for avoiding food allergies and reducing choking hazardsMess-free tips for dining outBaby 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.
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
Valuable self-regulatory skillsMindful eating strategies25 baby-tested and approved functional food recipesSmart-start purees and healthy finger foods, and how to introduce themWays to avoid picky eatingMethods for avoiding food allergies and reducing choking hazardsMess-free tips for dining outBaby 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.
224 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 1, 2016
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About the author
Nancy Ripton
1 book8 followersNancy Ripton is a writer and editor with over two decades of experience in consumer publishing. She is also the co-founder of my link text, a pregnancy and early years parenting site she developed nine years ago as a resource that parents could turn to for trusted advice.
As a nutrition and health writer, and former fitness director, Nancy is passionate about optimal health and eating whole, natural foods. She came up with the concept for Baby Self-Feeding: Solid Food Solutions to Create Lifelong, Healthy Eating Habits because she was dismayed at the foods kids eat nowadays. She wanted to know if the way children are introduced to foods could impact their desires for foods later in life. Endless journals and expert interviews led to this new way of introducing first foods.
As a nutrition and health writer, and former fitness director, Nancy is passionate about optimal health and eating whole, natural foods. She came up with the concept for Baby Self-Feeding: Solid Food Solutions to Create Lifelong, Healthy Eating Habits because she was dismayed at the foods kids eat nowadays. She wanted to know if the way children are introduced to foods could impact their desires for foods later in life. Endless journals and expert interviews led to this new way of introducing first foods.
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August 1, 2017
I like this book, it was sensible with gentle humour and lots and lots of good advice. Layouts are clear and pleasing to the eye and chapters are colour coded. There are lots of recipes including those that can be enjoyed by older children too. Having had four babies I think the development advice was spot on and the book can be enjoyed by eaters or meat and dairy or not.
May 1, 2021
Very helpful! But taking some of the strong opinions with a grain of salt. Or maybe not salt. She was pretty particular about reducing your sodium intake!
In seriousness, learning the science behind motor development and how we acquire preferences and tastes was super fascinating and I feel at least a little better equipped for feeding my 6 month old and trying to avoid creating an overly picky eater. And I took some pretty serious notes in the nutrition chapter when they talked about compensating for vegetarianism. The recipes at the end were nice too, but I might be kidding myself if I think I'm going to really have time for all the peeling, steaming, roasting and baking. Balance is everything and when I'm having to choose between quality time with my little girl and meal prepping, I'm probably going to choose quality time and not feel guilty about canned purees and dissolving crackers.
In seriousness, learning the science behind motor development and how we acquire preferences and tastes was super fascinating and I feel at least a little better equipped for feeding my 6 month old and trying to avoid creating an overly picky eater. And I took some pretty serious notes in the nutrition chapter when they talked about compensating for vegetarianism. The recipes at the end were nice too, but I might be kidding myself if I think I'm going to really have time for all the peeling, steaming, roasting and baking. Balance is everything and when I'm having to choose between quality time with my little girl and meal prepping, I'm probably going to choose quality time and not feel guilty about canned purees and dissolving crackers.
November 27, 2021
Very educational and motivational towards approaching food in a proper way. Incredibly well systemised research references which pushed me to go and read the actual studies on topics like "veggie vs meat eating" or "omega 3 vs omega 6", etc.
One thing where it could be improved is better search system (a cheat sheet) and more recipes for the early days. I am sort of literal guy and need more concrete instructions or reasoning behind suggestions, so that might be a very subjective critique lol.
The information is so useful that it's another babies book that might be useful to anyone to read. Disregarding if they are a parent of ever wanna be one. It's answers questions which the reader might have for themselves. It made me do blood tests to check the level of everything that comes from food. So, all in all, very good book and experience.
One thing where it could be improved is better search system (a cheat sheet) and more recipes for the early days. I am sort of literal guy and need more concrete instructions or reasoning behind suggestions, so that might be a very subjective critique lol.
The information is so useful that it's another babies book that might be useful to anyone to read. Disregarding if they are a parent of ever wanna be one. It's answers questions which the reader might have for themselves. It made me do blood tests to check the level of everything that comes from food. So, all in all, very good book and experience.
October 8, 2020
Quick, easy read. Not overly repetitive. Sites lots of studies to support the reasons to both use purées and then finger foods. The only thing I noticed missing was concern about sodium content in baby’s foods, which I’ve seen emphasized in other sources.
November 28, 2018
Some great tips about how to work with your child's development to promote healthy feeding, independent eaters, and a positive relationship with food.
December 15, 2020
Clear information on diet and nutrient needs along with fantastic instructions on introducing a spoon + straw to babies.
May 19, 2023
One of the best books on starting solids. I love that it teaches you to follow your baby’s lead instead of a specific method.
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