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Eat

Find posts to guide you through your “eat” section of your eat/wake/sleep cycle in the Babywise method. Find tips on breastfeeding, feeding solids, dropping feedings, and family mealtimes. You can also find tips on dealing with picky eating.

How to Wean Your Baby From Breastfeeding

November 17, 2025April 15, 2008 by valplowman
Weaning baby from breastfeeding

How to wean a baby from breastfeeding. Week by week process for gentle weaning. Also find troubleshooting tips and common questions. I just finished weaning Kaitlyn from nursing. With Brayden, I …

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Categories Eat Tags in action, nursing, weaning 14 Comments

Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}

May 2, 2024March 27, 2008 by valplowman
Baby playing instead of eating

What to do when your baby wants to play instead of breastfeed That little grin is so cute. The curiosity of your baby is precious. The look of wonder is …

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Categories Breastfeeding Tags nursing 66 Comments

How to Teach Your Baby Highchair Manners

April 27, 2020February 27, 2008 by valplowman
Baby eating in high chair

How to Teach Your Baby Highchair Manners. Tips to help baby have good manners while eating. A baby CAN have good manners! To a new parent watching their child eat for …

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Categories Discipline, Eat Tags highchairs, manners 42 Comments

How to Help Your Child Be a Good Eater

September 24, 2020February 26, 2008 by valplowman
How to Help Your Child Be a Good Eater. Tips to follow to avoid your child being a picky eater and being willing to eat most foods. 

How to Help Your Child Be a Good Eater. Tips to follow to avoid your child being a picky eater and being willing to eat most foods. You can help …

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Categories Eat Tags picky eaters 28 Comments

Babywise Myths #5: Babywise will cause you to loose your milk supply

November 7, 2024February 22, 2008 by valplowman
Reasons you can successfully breastfeed your Babywise baby. You can absolutely breastfeed a baby on a schedule. 

Reasons you can successfully breastfeed your Babywise baby. You can absolutely breastfeed a baby on a schedule. This myth doesn’t require a lot for me to combat it. Many people …

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Categories Babywise, Eat Tags myths, nursing, poll results 40 Comments

Tips for Feeding Your Pre-Toddler

April 27, 2020February 2, 2008 by valplowman
pretoddler eating corn

Tips for Feeding Your Pre-Toddler. Tips for feeding your 12-18 month old. What to feed and when to feed. When Brayden got to the age where he was ready to …

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Categories Eat, Pretoddler 25 Comments

How To Wean Baby from Breast, Bottle, and Formula

April 27, 2020January 29, 2008 by valplowman
baby eating solid foods

How To Wean Baby from Breast, Bottle, and Formula. Tips and strategies to help make the transition from breastfeeding and bottle-feeding smoother for baby. Whether you are weaning from breast …

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Categories Eat Tags nursing, weaning 35 Comments
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Valerie Plowman

Valerie Plowman, known as "the Babywise Mom", is the happy mother of four children. She has been helping parents with their parenting concerns since 2007 and loves helping others absolutely love being a parent.

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