Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Revised and Updated Edition PDF

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Confused about feeding your baby or toddler? Child of Mine, by noted nutritionist Ellyn Satter, is an essential guide for every new parent concerned with nutrition and appetite. Satter's advice is thorough and straightforward: "You can't control or dictate the quantity of food your child eats, and you shouldn't try. You also can't control or dictate the kind of body your child develops, and you shouldn't try. What you can do, and it is a great deal, is set things up for your child so she, herself, can regulate her food intake as well as possible, and so she can develop a healthy body that is constitutionally right for her."

Child of Mine provides information on all aspects of feeding, from pregnancy through the toddler years. Satter begins with historical and social perspectives on infant feeding, describing how formula was developed and discussing the social movement that lead to accepting a child's input into his or her own development. Nutrition during pregnancy, infant feeding, introducing solid foods, building positive eating relationships, and avoiding eating disorders are all discussed. The sections on breastfeeding vs. bottle feeding, and on the regulation of food intake (particularly the relationship between parental attitudes and children's eating habits) are especially recommended.

Satter provides specific nutritional information (including charts, diagrams, and nutritional breakdowns) interspersed with a no-nonsense, experienced perspective that will help you establish good eating habits that your children will benefit from long after they're out of diapers. --Ericka Lutz --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"An excellent source of solid nutrition information. . . . it espouses a philosophy of moderation and common sense that fosters good health, good eating habits, and, most of all, a loving relationship between parents and children. —Washington Post

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• Paperback: 536 pages
• Publisher: Bull Publishing Company; Revised edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0923521518
• ISBN-13: 978-0923521516
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 5.4 x 8.4 inches
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Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Revised and Updated Edition PDF

So there you all are, the five of you, finally sitting down at the dinner table. You, the mother, have managed to deliver a hot (or at least warm), nutritionally balanced (there is something green on the table), and home cooked (or close to) meal. Carefully, and with a sense of well-being, you dish it out and cut it up and place tidy plates of food in front of your first-grader, your pre-schooler and your toddler. Your husband helps himself. And as you, yourself, raise that first forkful to your lips, your first grader begins to push his food aimlessly around the plate, your pre-schooler shovels huge bites of pasta into his mouth, then pushes his plate away and announces he is waiting for desert (without having touched his broccoli), and your toddler throws all her food on the ground and screams delightedly, "uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh." Your sense of well-being vanishes, and you wonder, with your head in your hands, what, on earth, you've done wrong.

I don't know whether to give this book five stars or one.

When my son was around 15 months old he was a bottomless pit. I discovered Satter's book and realized I was wrong not to provide 2 nutritious snacks a day (on top of the standard 3 meals) and that restricting his calories was making him totally food-obsessed. So after a month or two of 3 meals plus 2 snacks a day and open-ended servings we were back on the track to normal, healthy eating.

Then at 18 months it was like a switch flipped in his head and he went from being the child who would eat anything to increasingly picky. No worry, Satter says, a toddler's caloric needs drop off around this point and it's normal for them to become finicky. A kid may need to taste a food up to 20 times to come to like it. And as long as you follow the division of feeding responsibility where the parent dictates the what, when, and where of eating and the child decides what and how much to eat, you'll be fine, says Satter. As a middle-ground between catering meals specially to your child, on one hand, and forcing them to eat everything on their plate, on the other, the author claims you side-step a lot of arguing over food with your child.

All of this makes so much sense on paper, but 18 months later (my son is 3 now) I'm not sure how grounded in reality it is. We have followed Satter's advice religiously (providing varied, nutritious meals, always having a "safe" starch on the table, no juice between meals, no pressure to eat, modeling sane eating habits ourselves, having dessert every once and a while and not making it contingent on eating "less fun" foods) and our son is down to 7 things he will eat: bread, cereal, apple sauce, pb&j, cream cheese bagels, saltines, and mango yogurt smoothie. Oh, and sweets.