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    Sane Parents Guide: Feeding and Nutrition
    Sane Parents Guide: Feeding and Nutrition
    Sane Parents Guide: Feeding and Nutrition
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    Sane Parents Guide: Feeding and Nutrition

    By Brad Powell

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    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 sections:
    Pre-Natal Prep
    Feeding Newborns
    Baby Food
    Toddler Food
    Nutritional Trends and Theories

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrad Powell
    Release dateSep 14, 2012
    ISBN9781301172351
    Sane Parents Guide: Feeding and Nutrition
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    Brad Powell

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      Sane Parents Guide - Brad Powell

      An Introduction for Sane Parents

      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 sections:

      Pre-Natal Prep

      Feeding Newborns

      Baby Food

      Toddler Food

      Nutritional Trends and Theories

      If you find something that you disagree with or you try something we suggest and it fails miserably (or succeeds wildly), we want to know about it. Join the conversation going on the forums at DadLabs.com and let us know what you think.

      What you won’t find in this ebook:

      Anything on getting your house ready for the baby. That’s in Sane Parents Guide #1. Or anything on Mobility. That's in Sane Parents Guide #2. Or Babyproofing, which can be found in Sane Parents Guide #3.

      A final bit of housekeeping before we get to the mobility: This series of books is produced in partnership with BabyBjorn® and their North American distributor Baby Swede. You’ll notice recommendations and endorsements of their products throughout this book. We decided to partner with BabyBjorn® in this project because we know and love these products, have used them with our own kids, and trust them completely. BabyBjorn® products would be featured here even if we had no official relationship. But luckily we do. Without them, this and future installments of the Sane Parents Guide would not be possible.

      Chapter 1 – Pre-Natal Prep

      In all likelihood, the first feeding with be at the breast.

      That is not, however, a requirement. The desired outcome is a healthy baby, and there is more than one way to achieve that goal. We know there are lots of so called lactivists out there that will give you the feeling that feeding an infant anything other than breast milk for the first two years of life should be a prosecutable crime. It isn’t. Bottle feeding is a great option for lots of families for a wide range of legitimate reasons.

      That said, the medical research has clearly shown that there are certain developmental advantages linked to breast feeding. Breast milk is incredible stuff. Although chemists continue to improve upon formula, they have yet to match the complex mixture of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates found in breast milk. And it’s much more than just food. Breast milk is packed with all kinds of antibodies, hormones, and active enzymes. In all there are more than 100 ingredients in breast milk that a baby can’t get from formula.

      Breast milk is also free! The canned stuff is about $20 for a month’s supply, or about $1500 a year. Add all that to the powerful emotional bonding between mom and baby, and breast milk is the better choice, all things being equal.

      Pre-Natal Groundwork

      There are actually a number of things you can do before the arrival of the baby to help smooth the path to successful breast feeding - most have to do with making sure you have good support in place, and taking care of the expecting mom’s health and nutrition.

      Birth Classes

      You are going to take a birth class. Both of you. So get over it. It’s not really that much time, effort or money, and well worth it in terms of gaining some familiarity with the process. Choosing which class to attend is a lot like registration at college: the teacher is more important than the course. So send out an email blast or post on Facebook and ask your friends and colleagues if they had a teacher they liked (or if there is a teacher to avoid). An instructor with a sense of humor can make all the difference.

      There are two popular schools of birthing classes: Lamaze, which emphasizes breathing and pain management, and Bradley, which emphasizes the father’s role in coaching. Both methods offer classes that stick close to the party line.

      In the end, there really isn’t all that much difference between them:

      Both enable the

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