What to Feed Your Baby: A Pediatrician's Guide to the 11 Essential Foods to Guarantee Veggie-Loving, No-Fuss, Healthy-Eating Kids

What to Feed Your Baby: A Pediatrician's Guide to the 11 Essential Foods to Guarantee Veggie-Loving, No-Fuss, Healthy-Eating Kids

by Tanya Altmann M.D.
What to Feed Your Baby: A Pediatrician's Guide to the 11 Essential Foods to Guarantee Veggie-Loving, No-Fuss, Healthy-Eating Kids

What to Feed Your Baby: A Pediatrician's Guide to the 11 Essential Foods to Guarantee Veggie-Loving, No-Fuss, Healthy-Eating Kids

by Tanya Altmann M.D.

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Overview

Winner of the National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) and Mom’s Choice Awards

Dr. Tanya Altmann is an experienced pediatrician and knows exactly how to get your baby to eat well and happily. What to Feed Your Baby provides easy, fun, and tasty advice!” (Harvey Karp, MD, FAAP, author of The Happiest Toddler on the Block and The Happiest Baby on the Block

As a pediatrician, spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and mother of three boys, Dr. Tanya Altmann knows that good nutrition is essential for healthy kids. In What to Feed Your Baby, Dr. Tanya provides the latest nutritional recommendations and best practices for feeding babies and young children. The simple, fool-proof program focuses on serving eleven foundation foods: eggs, prunes, avocado, fish, yogurt/cheese/milk, nuts, chicken/beans, fruit, green veggies, whole grains, and water.  What to Feed Your Baby helps parents set their children up for a lifetime of healthy choices—and say goodbye to picky eating forever!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062404947
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 04/05/2016
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Tanya Altmann, MD, FAAP, is a practicing pediatrician who founded Calabasas Pediatrics, and an assistant clinical professor at Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. She also is an American Academy of Pediatrics spokesperson, and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for Sharecare. Dr. Tanya is the author of Mommy Calls: Dr. Tanya Answers Parents’ Top 101 Questions About Babies and Toddlers and Editor in Chief of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5. She lives in Los Angeles, CA. Visit her online at www.DrTanya.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Welcome to the Family Table v

Part 1 Getting Started with the Eleven Foundation Foods Program

1 The Eleven Foundation Foods 3

2 The Program 13

Part 2 Feeding Your Baby and Toddler

3 Milk Matters: From Breast to Bean and Every Milk in Between 61

4 The Infant Program: Skip the Baby-Food Aisle and Start Solids the Right Way 75

5 The Toddler Program: Adventures with Independent Eaters 107

6 The Preschooler Program: Helping at Home and Lunchbox Lessons 125

7 The Modern Family Meal: Kids Eat Better When the Family Is Together 141

Part 3 Dr. Tanya's Advice on Tricky Issues

8 Food Allergies and Food Intolerance: Eating Safe and Smart 155

9 Sugar: The Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly 173

10 Vegetarian and Vegan Kids: Planting the Seeds of Growth 187

11 Organic, GMO, and OMG: Just Tell Me What to Buy at the Store! 199

12 Weighty Issues: The Underweight or Overweight Child 215

13 The Feeding Fix: Overhauling Bad Advice in Baby-Feeding Trends 239

14 The Picky Eater: Preventing and Taming Five Common Picky-Eating Problems 255

Part 4 Recipes

15 Nutritious and Delicious Recipes 269

Acknowledgments 309

Notes 311

Index 315

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