Sane Parents Guide: Feeding and Nutrition

by Clay Nichols, Erica De Leon, Brad Powell

For a long time, feeding has been a pretty simple proposition. You get hungry, you eat, generally around three times a day. You try to stick with the healthy stuff, but you don’t obsess about it. When you worry about weight, it’s always about losing it. Gaining weight is not the problem.That all changes when the baby comes around.Suddenly feeding can become an anxiety-filled process, full of complex choices, timetables, and unfamiliar ingredients, all with the objective of reasonable but steady weight gain.How can you manage all this without going nuts?We have a few suggestions, based mostly on common sense and experience, with a little advice from doctors and nutritionists thrown in for balance.We will cover feeding in six Pre-Natal Prep, Feeding Newborns, Baby Food, Toddler Food, Nutritional Trends and Theories

105 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 13, 2012