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First Bites: A Science-Based Guide to Nutrition for Baby's First 1,000 Days
Help your little one become a good, healthy eater. Until age 2, a child’s body develops at superspeed―with 60 percent of calorie intake going straight to brain development―so good nutrition is essential. Reviewed and approved by a board of pediatricians, First Bites connects nutrition and development with hard-hitting data, fascinating facts, and flavorful, healthy food. Part One examines the significance of the first 1,000 days, the most important nutrition window in life. Discover which nutrients mother and baby need when and which fundamentals to keep on hand. Learn how to start solids, avoid creating a picky eater, and spot changes in your child’s digestion. Part Two offers more than 60 easy-to-follow recipes, from pregnancy dishes for expecting mamas to basic blends for infants starting solids and tantalizing finger foods for toddlers, all free of added sugars, gluten, and dairy. Strategically introducing your wee one to 100 ingredients by age 2, the recipes proceed by baby age, meal, and total time, so you can make something tasty, quick, and simple or something good that takes a little more time. From an Apricot Turmeric Bowl and Beet Chips to Quinoa Cornbread and Zucchini Fritters, these aren’t your grandma’s recipes. They’ll help you optimize quality and time while feeding your little one and find some much-needed inner peas . 100 color photographs
- GenresParenting
256 pages, Hardcover
Published January 31, 2023
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April 26, 2023
As a first-time mom, I think nutrition and feeding was the most stressful thing to figure out as a parent. Trying to constantly come up with nutritionally dense foods that your baby will love is hard. This book is amazing for any first-time parent or even a reoccurring parent looking to switch things up. I love the information this book provides and how it goes from the nutritional information needed before birth to toddling age. The recipes also provided are great for kids that might have allergies to certain foods while also helping infants be exposed to various types of food that are crucial to their growing needs. Overall, this book is amazing at covering all the basis of food and nutrition for you and your baby and as a mother myself, I love that I can now focus on my own child's nutrition and feed them great recipes from this book.
March 25, 2024
The 1,000 days from the subtitle include gestation, so I guess I should've picked this up earlier whooooops (I write this as H is a 14 month old, haha). The first half is on nutrition and the science behind appropriate nutrients at various stages for development (and a reminder that fed is best, sidestepping whether you do milk or formula initially!) and the second half is recipes. This might be one of the few cookbooks I actually try to make something from instead of reading straight through. Will edit or comment on this review if I do.
July 6, 2023
In depth nutritional information in the first half, nothing I will ever remember and simple recipes in the second, most of which I already knew. An attractive presentation nonetheless, would love to hear a podcast from the author.
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