Feeding: The Brazelton Way (advice From America’s Favourite Pediatrician)

Nursing newborns, picky toddlers, fouryear-olds with bizarre food preferences-at every age, parents are concerned with what their children eat. In this indispensable, straight-to-the-point guide, Brazelton and Sparrow apply their warm and supportive Touchpoints approach to food issues throughout childhood and help parents avoid all the frustrating feeding problems. First they apply the Touchpoints philosophy to feeding (watch for the setbacks that often come before a leap of progress), then they follow feeding progress age by age, and finally they deal with the most common issues breast or bottle, weaning, basic nutritional needs, the over-involved parent, food battles, adolescent overeating, and the roots of eating disorders. Mealtimes can be fun, healthy, family times the Brazelton Way. Find solutions for Allergies for food • Feeding during illness. • Food refusal • Junk food battles • Spitting up • Table manners • Throwing food • Weaning About Author: S T Berry Brazelton is the founder of the Prestigious Child Development Unit at Children’s Hospital Boston and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. Joshua D Sparrow is Supervisor of Inpatient Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.