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
- Mastitis: Definition, Prevention, and Treatment
- Keeping a Newborn Awake During Feedings
- Sometimes Breastfeeding Just Hurts
- Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}
- Fussy Newborns and Mom’s Diet
- Baby Stuff I Love: Nursing/Bottle Feeding Stuff
- Bottle Feeding
- Lip-Tie and Tongue-Tie in Baby
- High Lipase in Breastmilk: Why and What To Do
- Parent Directed Feeding (Babywise PDF) Explained
- 4 Powerful Things To Know Before You Exclusively Pump
- Baby Stuff I Love: Nursing/Bottle Feeding Stuff
- Hunger Cues: How To Know if Baby Is Hungry
- Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods
- Solid Foods
- Why Your Baby Has Orange Skin
- Parents Remember: Eating Solids is a New Skill
- How To Make Homemade Baby Food
- How To Introduce Solid Foods to Your Baby
- How To Make Sure You Are “Feeding the Rainbow”
- Baby’s First 8 Weeks of Solid Foods
- 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
- 2 Important Tips for Overcoming the Picky Eater
- What To Do When Your Child Doesn’t Like A Certain Food
- Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
- You Don’t Have to Like It, But You Do Have to Eat It
- Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
- Correct Food Portions for Kids from Baby-8 Years
- How to Align Baby’s Meal Times with Family’s Meal Times
- Mealtime
- Easy Breakfast Meals for Busy Families
- How To Manage Dinner Prep Time As a Mother
- How to Teach Table Manners to Your Child
- Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
- Index: Mealtime
- 8 Reasons Family Meals are Vitally Important
- 18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
- Snacks
- Overcoming the Difficulties of Feeding Healthy Snacks to Kids
- Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
- 18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
- 5 Helpful Snack Policies for Your Kids
- Snacks for Babies and Toddlers
- Recent “Eat” Posts
- 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)
- How To Increase Your Milk Supply FAST
- More “Eat” Help
- 2 Important Tips for Overcoming the Picky Eater
- Pre-Toddler Mealtime Expectations
- Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby “Randomly”
- Index: Dropping Things
- Exploring Your Prejudices About Breastfeeding
- Poll Results: Picky Eaters
- Sleepy Newborns: Work to Feed for 10 Minutes
- Breastfeeding in Front of Older Siblings
- Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}
- When to Drop a Feeding for Your Baby: Merging Feeds
- Feeding Solids on a Babywise Schedule
- How to Wean Baby From a Bottle
- Poll Results: Nursing Strikes
- Tips for Feeding Your Pre-Toddler
- McKenna Newborn Summary: Week Three
- 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
Mastitis: Definition, Prevention, and Treatment
Keeping a Newborn Awake During Feedings
Sometimes Breastfeeding Just Hurts
Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}
Fussy Newborns and Mom’s Diet
Baby Stuff I Love: Nursing/Bottle Feeding Stuff
Bottle Feeding
Lip-Tie and Tongue-Tie in Baby
High Lipase in Breastmilk: Why and What To Do
Parent Directed Feeding (Babywise PDF) Explained
4 Powerful Things To Know Before You Exclusively Pump
Baby Stuff I Love: Nursing/Bottle Feeding Stuff
Hunger Cues: How To Know if Baby Is Hungry
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
Why Your Baby Has Orange Skin
Parents Remember: Eating Solids is a New Skill
How To Make Homemade Baby Food
How To Introduce Solid Foods to Your Baby
How To Make Sure You Are “Feeding the Rainbow”
Baby’s First 8 Weeks of Solid Foods
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
2 Important Tips for Overcoming the Picky Eater
What To Do When Your Child Doesn’t Like A Certain Food
Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
You Don’t Have to Like It, But You Do Have to Eat It
Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
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
Easy Breakfast Meals for Busy Families
How To Manage Dinner Prep Time As a Mother
How to Teach Table Manners to Your Child
Feeding the Littles: Tips for Nurturing Good Eaters
Index: Mealtime
8 Reasons Family Meals are Vitally Important
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
Overcoming the Difficulties of Feeding Healthy Snacks to Kids
Appetite vs. Hunger When it Comes to Kids
18 Healthy Snacks for After School for Your Kids
5 Helpful Snack Policies for Your Kids
Snacks for Babies and Toddlers
Recent “Eat” Posts
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)
How To Increase Your Milk Supply FAST
More “Eat” Help
2 Important Tips for Overcoming the Picky Eater
Pre-Toddler Mealtime Expectations
Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby “Randomly”
Index: Dropping Things
Exploring Your Prejudices About Breastfeeding
Poll Results: Picky Eaters
Sleepy Newborns: Work to Feed for 10 Minutes
Breastfeeding in Front of Older Siblings
Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}
When to Drop a Feeding for Your Baby: Merging Feeds
Feeding Solids on a Babywise Schedule
How to Wean Baby From a Bottle
Poll Results: Nursing Strikes
Tips for Feeding Your Pre-Toddler
McKenna Newborn Summary: Week Three
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
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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