Questions regarding providing proper nutrition, including strategies to get a child to eat healthy foods
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How long is breastfeeding effective and worthwhile?
I realize that this question can have many personal or subjective viewpoints, so the answer I'm looking for is what the best-known data shows us from two perspectives:
1) Is there an average ...
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Is it better to send your child to school with lunch, or lunch money?
I remember my school cafeteria food as being, well, not what I'd consider "food".
At the same time, I know how hard it is to consistently pack lunch as an adult without getting bored with the same ...
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How do we get our toddler to gain weight?
Our toddler isn't gaining weight, and our doctor told us to fix it. We stopped breastfeeding and she gained a kilo in just two weeks, but since then (soon two months) she hasn't gained anything again, ...
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What's so hard about home made carrot baby food?
When we were dealing with baby foods, all the books and experts talked about how you could make your own baby food at home easily, except carrots. They all just said "don't even try", some even had a ...
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How to get toddler to eat eggs?
A long while ago my 2 yr 9 mo old son decided he did not like eggs. He was good enough to taste them (and re-tasted them on a couple later occasions), but he made up his mind he just does not like ...
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Are vitamin supplements necessary for newborns?
We have been told by various people that babies need vitamin supplements, because "My doctor said so." This seems counterintuitive. Shouldn't formula or breastmilk have all of the nutrients that a ...
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Does feeding breast milk from a bottle convey the same health benefits as nursing?
Is there's any specific benefit to nursing instead of just pumping and feeding from the bottle? Is there anything intrinsic in the act of nursing that improves baby's health or increases the ...
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Are between-meal snacks important?
It seems common at day cares to have an eating scheduling like:
8am breakfast
10am morning snack
12pm lunch
3pm afternoon snack
6pm dinner (at home)
I hear that more frequent, smaller meals is better ...
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What are the proper precaution for using cow's milk to feed babies?
There's a great guide for using pumped breastmilk...in it, there are tons of guidelines for:
How long it can be kept after it has been heated up?
If a baby didn't finish a bottle, how long before ...
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2answers
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Is Woodward's Gripe water safe?
We've been given a bottle of Woodward's gripe water? Is it safe? I see a long list of ingredients, such as Sarjkakshara and Bronopol and Methlyparaben
Additionaly, is it useful?
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3answers
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How do we ensure that our toddler is getting proper nutrition now that he is eating more solid foods?
My son is 15 months old, and has been eating an increasing variety of solid foods. However, we are having a hard time getting him to eat normal "meals".
His favorite foods are more in the category ...
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Sneaking vegetables (and other healthy foods) to small children. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you feed a picky eater?
Tonight for dinner I had a bunch of mustard greens from our garden so I cooked them up and added them to spaghetti sauce. My kids would ...
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At what month of pregnancy should the DHA intake be started?
My doctor has said that since the WHO's website doesn't mention that DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid) intake is compulsory, she won't be talking about it.
I am referring to the ...
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2answers
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How much vitamin D does a toddler typically need?
Background:
I've been diagnosed with being low on vitamin D. Since I started taking a 1000 IU supplement that my doctor recommended, I've seen much reduced skin issues.
My son has skin issues. We ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to give adult milk powder or powder of higher age group to toddlers?
I wanted my little ones to grow stronger, faster and smarter. So, is it recommended to give toddlers or little ones milk powder of higher age group or adult milk?
e.g. For my kid of age 5, is it ...
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What should parent do when their child is dropping more hair?
A colleague of mime notice that her teenager kid is dropping a lot of hair recently.
What advices should I give to my colleague to help her teenager kid instead of telling her to ask her bring her ...
