Eat: The "Eat" Part of Your Routine

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.

Baby sitting on a table eating food from a bowl

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.

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Baby eating graphic — **Newborn Feed Length**

Baby Hunger Cues

Full Feedings Signs

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.

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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.

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Breastfeeding

Why iron is so important for breastfed babies.

Why Breastfed Babies are at a Higher Risk for Iron Deficiency, & What to do About it

Cutting Chocolate when Breastfeeding

How to breastfeed through obstacles and difficulties. Breastfeed even when it is hard.

I Breastfed For 12 Months Even When Everything Went Wrong

Reasons for Feeding Baby Sooner than 2.5 Hours

Nursing Woes {Baby Playing While Breastfeeding}

6 month old Brinley laying on her back looking up at the camera.

Nursing Strikes: Causes and What to Do

Sample Schedules for a Formula Fed Baby

Reasons for Feeding Baby Sooner than 2.5 Hours

Parent Directed Feeding (Babywise PDF) Explained

How to Get a Breastfeeding Newborn to Take a Bottle

Woman holding a breast pump with a bottle of expressed milk

High Lipase in Breastmilk: Why and What To Do

Lip-Tie and Tongue-Tie in Baby

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

How To Make Sure You Are “Feeding the Rainbow”

Tips for Introducing Solids to Your Baby “Randomly”

Common Questions When Starting Purees with Baby

Baby’s Feeding Schedule With Solid Foods

Why Your Baby Has Orange Skin

How To Introduce Solid Foods to Your Baby

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.

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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.

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Child being picky about eating broccoli at the dinner table

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.

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