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Making Your Own Baby Food at Home - Keep Kids Healthy
The 6 Key Points to Preparing Your Own Baby Food - Congratulations on taking the decision to prepare your own food for your baby! By doing so, you're treating him to two of life's greatest gifts -- good health and delicious food.
Feeding Guide for the First Year - CHOP
Learn how to make appropriate food choices for your baby during the first year to start good eating habits that will help set healthy eating patterns for life.
Baby Food Recipes
Parenting Books recommended from the Keep Kids Healthy library about Baby Food Recipes.
Baby Food Books
Parenting Books recommended from the Keep Kids Healthy library about Baby Food.
Breastfeeding: Starting Solid Foods
Breastmilk is all your baby needs until at least four months of age. Most babies will do fine with exclusive breastfeeding until 6 months of age or longer, after which you can start cereal, fruits, vegetables and meats.
Breastfeeding: Breastfeeding and Other Foods
Very few maternal illnesses or breast problems require the mother to stop breastfeeding. Alsobreastfeeding rarely needs to be discontinued for infant illness.
Infant Parenting Tips: Starting Solid Foods
a discussion of starting solids in infants, baby foods, cereal
Preventing Food Allergies in Children
Preventing food allergies may be possible, especially if your child is at high risk of having a food allergy, including already having an allergy to aother food or formula, having other family members with food allergies, or having other 'allergic' type conditions or family members with these conditions, such as eczema, allergic rhinitis (hayfever) and/or asthma.
Food Refusal in Children
Common reasons for infants to refuse to take solids and have difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) include reflux, food aversions and neuromuscular disorders. Treatments are usually with a speech pathologist.
It's Not Just Baby Fat Any More
Tips to help counteract childhood obesity.
Soy Protein Health Claims and Questions
Vegetarians and health enthusiasts have known for years that foods rich in soy protein offer a good alternative to meat, poultry, and other animal-based products. Products high in soy protein may also help lower heart disease risk. Learn about the health befefits and controversies of soy protein in your diet.
Nutrition Q and A
Review these common nutrition questions and answers, including questions about kids and healthy snacks, flavorded milks, apple juice, pizza, fluoride, shakes, food additives, fiber, portion size, soft drinks, eggs, tuna and fast food.
Infant Botulism Guide:
A discussion of botulism in infants and children, a rare cause of paralysis caused by a toxin usually found in contaminated food.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest significant amounts of lactose, the predominant sugar of milk, which can cause nausea, cramps, bloating, gas, and diarrhea.
Kids' Picky Eating: Natural or Learned?
Information and tips about your kids' picky eating habits.
Getting Kids to Eat Vegetables and Fruits
Learn how to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, especially when they may only want to eat chicken nuggets and french fries.
Raising Vegan Children
Raising Vegan Children guide with advice on providing your child with a vegan diet to give him an early start on leading a long and healthy life.
Preventing Iron Deficiency Anemia
Iron deficiency is still a big problem today, especially among toddlers and teen girls. Learn about how to prevent and treat iron deficiency anemia in children.
Methyl Mercury in Fish - In The News
A public health advisory from the FDA concerning methyl mercury in fish and the hazards to women who are pregnant or may become pregnant, nursing mothers, and young children on the number of meals of fish that are safe to eat each week.
Cereal and Sleeping all Night - Pediatric Parenting Myths
Myth 6 - Giving your infant cereal will help him to sleep throught the night. This is one of the most common myths that just isn't true. When your child begins to sleep through the night has more to do with his development and having a good bedtime routine where he learns to fall asleep on his own, and not on how hungry or full he is. And remember that many children do not begin to sleep though the night until they are about 3-4 months old.
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