Everything you need to know about the “eat” portion of your daily routine. Get tips from feeding newborns all the way up through older kids. Get tips on snacks, picky eating, solid foods, and family mealtime.
Post Contents
- Keeping a Newborn Awake for Feedings
- Baby Growth Spurts
- Success as a Mom is not measured by feeding method
- Breastfeeding
- Reader Weaning Questions
- STOP Baby Biting When Breastfeeding
- Cutting Chocolate when Breastfeeding
- Sometimes Breastfeeding Just Hurts
- Poll Results: Weaning from Breast
- Poll Results: Nursing Strikes
- Bottle Feeding
- Surviving Weaning from Breast and/or Bottle
- 5 Things to Know About Exclusively Pumping
- Tips You Need When Introducing A Bottle to Baby “Late”
- Success as a Mom is not measured by feeding method
- Sleepy Newborns: Work to Feed for 10 Minutes
- How Many Ounces Should Baby Drink in a Day
- Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
- Solid Foods
- Feeding Solids on a Babywise Schedule
- Parents Remember: Eating Solids is a New Skill
- How To Make Sure You Are “Feeding the Rainbow”
- Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
- Easy Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby
- Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby “Randomly”
- When and How to Move Baby to 4 Hour Schedule
- Baby Finger Foods Basics
- Become a Schedule PRO
- Thank you!
- How to Prevent Your Child from Becoming a Picky Eater
- Picky Eaters
- Poll Results: Picky Eaters
- What To Do When Your Child Doesn’t Like A Certain Food
- Are Picky Eaters Born or Made?
- How to Help Your Child Be a Good Eater
- You Don’t Have to Like It, But You Do Have to Eat It
- 2 Important Tips for Overcoming the Picky Eater
- Correct Food Portions for Kids from Baby-8 Years
- How to Align Baby’s Meal Times with Family’s Meal Times
- Mealtime
- Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
- Mealtime Booster Seats: When to Move and Good Features
- How to Teach Table Manners to Your Child
- Easy Breakfast Meals for Busy Families
- Pre-Toddler Mealtime Milestones
- How To Manage Dinner Prep Time As a Mother
- 18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
- Snacks
- Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
- Teen Snack Habits: How to Handle a Hungry Teen
- Overcoming the Difficulties of Feeding Healthy Snacks to Kids
- 18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
- Snacks for Babies and Toddlers
- 5 Helpful Snack Policies for Your Kids
- Recent “Eat” Posts
- Teen Snack Habits: How to Handle a Hungry Teen
- Sweet Moments Nursing Collection: Chic, Comfortable, and Perfect for Every Occasion
- STOP Baby Biting When Breastfeeding
- Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
- Nursing Strikes: Causes and What to Do
- Reasons Your 3 Month Old Won’t Eat (and how to help)
- More “Eat” Help
- How to Drop Middle of the Night Feeding
- When Does a Toddler Master Spoon Skills
- Pre-Toddler Mealtime Expectations
- Tips to Be Successful With Baby-Led Weaning
- Index: Mealtime
- How to Wean Your Baby From Breastfeeding
- Brinley Newborn Summary: Week 10
- Reader Weaning Questions
- 10 Smart Mealtime Rules for Children
- Baby Meal Planner {Free Printable}
- Poll Results: Nursing Strikes
- Tips for Feeding Your Pre-Toddler
- Storage Caddy for Organizing Nursing Supplies
- Babywise Myths #5: Babywise will cause you to loose your milk supply
- Surviving Weaning from Breast and/or Bottle
- Feeding Newborns
- Breastfeeding
- Bottle Feeding
- Feeding Schedules
- Solid Foods
- Finger Foods
- Feeding Troubles
- Snacks
- Dropping Feedings and Weaning
- Picky Eating
- Feeding Pretoddlers-Older Kids
- Mealtime
Keeping a Newborn Awake for Feedings
How to feed a sleepy newborn. To be successful with feeding a newborn, you need your baby to stay awake. Tips to keep baby awake while eating so your baby can get a full feeding for breastfeeding and bottle feeding.
Baby Growth Spurts
Know the signs of a growth spurt, how to handle the growth spurt, what ages are growth spurts, how long a growth spurt lasts, and feeding baby in growth.
Success as a Mom is not measured by feeding method
Your value as a mother is not defined by HOW you feed your baby. Keep your spouse involved in the process of deciding how to feed baby. There are many ways to feed your baby, and the important thing is that your baby is fed.
Breastfeeding
Reader Weaning Questions
STOP Baby Biting When Breastfeeding
Cutting Chocolate when Breastfeeding
Sometimes Breastfeeding Just Hurts
Poll Results: Weaning from Breast
Poll Results: Nursing Strikes
Bottle Feeding
Surviving Weaning from Breast and/or Bottle
5 Things to Know About Exclusively Pumping
Tips You Need When Introducing A Bottle to Baby “Late”
Success as a Mom is not measured by feeding method
Sleepy Newborns: Work to Feed for 10 Minutes
How Many Ounces Should Baby Drink in a Day
Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
When it is time to start solid foods, the daily schedule may shift some, but your pattern of eat/wake/sleep should stay the same. This post outlines when and where solid foods should fall in your baby’s daily schedule.
Solid Foods
Feeding Solids on a Babywise Schedule
Parents Remember: Eating Solids is a New Skill
How To Make Sure You Are “Feeding the Rainbow”
Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
Easy Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby
Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby “Randomly”
When and How to Move Baby to 4 Hour Schedule
One of the most common questions I get is from people wondering when their baby can move to a 4 hour schedule. Once your baby is happily eating every three hours and you seem to always need to wake her up to eat, it may be time to move from a three hour schedule to the four hour schedule. Read on to see if your baby is ready.
Baby Finger Foods Basics
Finger foods for babies. Signs baby is ready for finger foods. Good first finger foods. How to help baby learn to eat finger foods. What age is best to start introducing finger foods.
How to Prevent Your Child from Becoming a Picky Eater
Get ten tips to follow to help your child not be a picky eater. If your child has no medical conditions, these tips will help your child eat what is given.
Picky Eaters
Poll Results: Picky Eaters
What To Do When Your Child Doesn’t Like A Certain Food
Are Picky Eaters Born or Made?
How to Help Your Child Be a Good Eater
You Don’t Have to Like It, But You Do Have to Eat It
2 Important Tips for Overcoming the Picky Eater
Correct Food Portions for Kids from Baby-8 Years
Know what food portions and serving sizes you should be feeding your little one. Get recommended serving sizes by age from birth through age 8.
How to Align Baby’s Meal Times with Family’s Meal Times
When to move your child’s meal times so they are at the same time as the rest of the family. What time should baby eat dinner?
Mealtime
Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
Mealtime Booster Seats: When to Move and Good Features
How to Teach Table Manners to Your Child
Easy Breakfast Meals for Busy Families
Pre-Toddler Mealtime Milestones
How To Manage Dinner Prep Time As a Mother
18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
Find over 18 different ideas for what to give your kids for healthy snacks after school. Satisfy their hunger without ruining their dinner.
Snacks
Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
Teen Snack Habits: How to Handle a Hungry Teen
Overcoming the Difficulties of Feeding Healthy Snacks to Kids
18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
Snacks for Babies and Toddlers
5 Helpful Snack Policies for Your Kids
Recent “Eat” Posts
Teen Snack Habits: How to Handle a Hungry Teen
Sweet Moments Nursing Collection: Chic, Comfortable, and Perfect for Every Occasion
STOP Baby Biting When Breastfeeding
Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
Nursing Strikes: Causes and What to Do
Reasons Your 3 Month Old Won’t Eat (and how to help)
More “Eat” Help
How to Drop Middle of the Night Feeding
When Does a Toddler Master Spoon Skills
Pre-Toddler Mealtime Expectations
Tips to Be Successful With Baby-Led Weaning
Index: Mealtime
How to Wean Your Baby From Breastfeeding
Brinley Newborn Summary: Week 10
Reader Weaning Questions
10 Smart Mealtime Rules for Children
Baby Meal Planner {Free Printable}
Poll Results: Nursing Strikes
Tips for Feeding Your Pre-Toddler
Storage Caddy for Organizing Nursing Supplies
Babywise Myths #5: Babywise will cause you to loose your milk supply
Surviving Weaning from Breast and/or Bottle
Feeding Newborns
- Baby Growth Spurts: Everything You Need To Know
- Fussy Newborns and Mom’s Diet
- How Long Should a Newborn Feeding Last?
- How Many Ounces Should Baby Drink in a Day
- How To Tell if Baby is Getting a Full Feeding
- Hunger Cues: How To Know if Baby Is Hungry
- Keeping a Newborn Awake During Feedings
- Sleepy Newborns: Work to Feed for 10 Minutes
- Success as a Mom is not measured by feeding method
- Understanding Baby Hunger Patterns
Breastfeeding
- A Breastfeeding Journey with Babywise
- Babywise Myths #5: Babywise will cause you to loose your milk supply
- Breastfeeding Difficulties: Milk Supply Limit
- Breastfeeding in Front of Older Siblings
- Cutting Chocolate when Breastfeeding
- Exploring Your Prejudices About Breastfeeding
- Fussy Newborns and Mom’s Diet
- High Lipase in Breastmilk: Why and What To Do
- How to Be Successful at Breastfeeding
- How To Increase Your Milk Supply FAST
- How to Wean Your Baby From Breastfeeding
- I Breastfed For 12 Months Even When Everything Went Wrong
- Mastitis: Definition, Prevention, and Treatment
- Nursing Strikes: Causes and What to Do
- Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}
- Sometimes Breastfeeding Just Hurts
- Storage Caddy for Organizing Nursing Supplies
- Thrush Infection When Breastfeeding
- Troubleshooting Common Breastfeeding Difficulties
- Why Breastfed Babies are at a Higher Risk for Iron Deficiency, & What to do About it
Bottle Feeding
- 4 Powerful Things To Know Before You Exclusively Pump
- 5 Things to Know About Exclusively Pumping
- 5 Things You Really Need to Know About Bottle Feeding
- Baby Whisperer: Nursing vs. Bottlefeeding
- How to Wean Baby From a Bottle
- Sample Schedules for a Formula Fed Baby
- Tips You Need When Introducing A Bottle to Baby “Late”
Feeding Schedules
- Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
- Baby Feeding Times for Solid Foods
- Baby Growth Spurts: Everything You Need To Know
- Baby Meal Planner {Free Printable}
- Correct Food Portions for Kids from Baby-8 Years
- Feeding Solids on a Babywise Schedule
- How to Align Baby’s Meal Times with Family’s Meal Times
- How To Tell if Baby is Getting a Full Feeding
- Parent Directed Feeding (Babywise PDF) Explained
- Parents Remember: Eating Solids is a New Skill
- Reasons for Feeding Baby Sooner than 2.5 Hours
- Sample Schedules for a Formula Fed Baby
- Understanding Baby Hunger Patterns
Solid Foods
- Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
- Baby Feeding Times for Solid Foods
- Baby’s First 8 Weeks of Solid Foods
- Baby Meal Planner {Free Printable}
- Common Questions When Starting Purees with Baby
- Easy Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby
- Feeding Solids on a Babywise Schedule
- How To Introduce Solid Foods to Your Baby
- How To Make Homemade Baby Food
- How To Make Sure You Are “Feeding the Rainbow”
- Solid Food and Babies: Best Practices
- Super Baby Food Cookbook
- Tips to Be Successful With Baby-Led Weaning
- Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby “Randomly”
Finger Foods
Feeding Troubles
- Fussy Newborns and Mom’s Diet
- High Lipase in Breastmilk: Why and What To Do
- Lip-Tie and Tongue-Tie in Baby
- Nursing Strikes: Causes and What to Do
- Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}
- Reasons Your 3 Month Old Won’t Eat (and how to help)
- Signs Your Fussy Baby Might Have MSPI
- Thrush Infection When Breastfeeding
- What To Do When Your Child Hates Milk: Adding Dairy to the Diet
- Why Your Baby Has Orange Skin
Snacks
- 5 Helpful Snack Policies for Your Kids
- 18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
- Overcoming the Difficulties of Feeding Healthy Snacks to Kids
- Snacks for Babies and Toddlers
- Teen Snack Habits: How to Handle a Hungry Teen
Dropping Feedings and Weaning
- How to Drop Middle of the Night Feeding
- How to Wean Baby From a Bottle
- How To Wean Baby from Breast, Bottle, and Formula
- How to Wean Your Baby From Breastfeeding
- Juice vs. Water
- Surviving Weaning from Breast and/or Bottle
- Tips for Dropping the 4th Feeding {Bottle or Breast}
- When to Drop a Feeding for Your Baby: Merging Feeds
Picky Eating
- 2 Important Tips for Overcoming the Picky Eater
- Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
- Are Picky Eaters Born or Made?
- Building the Foundation for a Lifetime of Healthy Eating
- Child Won’t Eat Favorite Foods
- Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
- How to Help Your Child Be a Good Eater
- What To Do When Your Child Doesn’t Like A Certain Food
- You Don’t Have to Like It, But You Do Have to Eat It
Feeding Pretoddlers-Older Kids
- 10 Smart Mealtime Rules for Children
- Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
- Correct Food Portions for Kids from Baby-8 Years
- Helpful Tips for Introducing Baby to a Sippy Cup
- Pre-Toddler Mealtime Expectations
- Pre-Toddler Mealtime Milestones
- Tips for Feeding Your Pre-Toddler
- When Does a Toddler Master Spoon Skills
Mealtime
- 8 Reasons Family Meals are Vitally Important
- 10 Smart Mealtime Rules for Children
- Correct Food Portions for Kids from Baby-8 Years
- Easy Breakfast Meals for Busy Families
- Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
- High Chair Features to Look For
- How to Align Baby’s Meal Times with Family’s Meal Times
- How to Teach Your Baby Highchair Manners
- How I Organize and Execute Family Meals
- How To Make Sure You Are “Feeding the Rainbow”
- How To Manage Dinner Prep Time As a Mother
- How to Teach Table Manners to Your Child
- Mealtime Booster Seats: When to Move and Good Features
- Pizza Cutter Tip {Meal Time Life Hack}
- Tips for Eating Organic as a Family
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