Feeding Your Baby the Healthiest Foods: From breast milk to table foods - Softcover

From Canada's leading children's nutritionist comes the most up-to-date and down-to-earth guide to feeding young children - from the hour after birth right up to the toddler years. This indispensable resource for new and expectant mothers - for anyone involved in the care and feeding of infants - offers the latest information on the merits of breast milk, and how to manage breastfeeding in the hospital, at home, and after a return to the workplace.

Parents will discover when and how to introduce solid foods, how to prevent or treat colic and other common problems, as well as how to instill healthy eating habits into youngsters at an early age. Lambert-Lagace introduces her readers to recent changes in the commercial baby foods, infant cereals, and formulas. She even post-natal menus for mothers, and several delicious recipes for home made baby foods. Elegantly designed charts of various nutrients make learning the facts of these building blocks quick and easy.