MrsK Books: The Pediatrician's Guide to Feeding Babies & Toddlers

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The Pediatrician's Guide to Feeding Babies & Toddlers

Anthony F. Porto, MD & Dina M Dimaggio, MD

ISBN: 9781607749011

Publisher's Synopsis:

A comprehensive manual for feeding babies and toddlers during the crucial first years of life, written by a team of medical experts who are also parents.
The choices of when, how, and what to feed your baby can be overwhelming. With The Pediatrician’s Guide to Feeding Babies and Toddlers, you have the expertise of a team of pediatric medical and nutritional experts—who also happen to be parents—in a comprehensive manual that takes the guesswork out of feeding. This first-of-its-kind guide provides practical, easy-to-follow advice to help you navigate the nutrition issues, medical conditions, and parenting concerns that accompany feeding. With recipes, parenting stories, and recommendations based on the latest pediatric guidelines, this book will allow you to approach mealtime with confidence so you can spend more time enjoying your new family.

MrsK's Review:

"We believe that feeding should be fun, stress-free,

and family-oriented quality time."

This resource is divided into five age groups with developmental guidelines, medical tips, and recipes. Each stage of growth provides "realistic" suggestions for feeding your little one from breast feeding... to formula or milk... and into finger foods.

Each section is organized with how your infant/toddler is changing. There are expected abilities listed, as well as what type of feeding schedule would benefit their growth pattern. The conversations are written with a welcoming voice, as if you were gathered around a table with relatives or friends sharing personal experiences. Suggested feedings are followed with the most "asked" concerns, these Q&A points are one of the strengths for this book (so many tips are revealed and so many of the myths or misunderstood guidelines are debunked). Finally there are easy to follow recipes for making your own babyfood, soups, or snacks. The last chapter specifically deals with different medical needs (allergies, treatments, growth patterns, and visiting with specialists).

The only aspect that would have made this reviewer happier, would have been the addition of photos (recipes, allergy-related signs, play-time toys, and of course great book resources).
Mrs.K

Excellent resource for parents and their newborns-toddlers.

"We created this book as a resource to provide easy access to

common feeding questions from the minute an infant

is born through the toddler years."

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/Pages/default.aspx

Meet the Author's:

Anthony F. Porto is a board-certified pediatrician and board certified pediatric gastroenterologist. Anthony is interested in nutrition, especially in the care of children with difficulty gaining weight, feeding issues, and celiac disease. He loves teaching and educating parents and gives lectures to parents thoughout Connecticut.

Dina M. DiMaggio is board certified pediatrician at Pediatric Associates of NYC. She is dedicated to educating parents on baby and toddler nutrition and gives talks to parent groups thoughout New York.

"I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review."

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MrsK's Reading Bio

Reading is important! No questions asked, not even a blink of the eye from any student I grew up with. On the first day of the First grade, we were given our first books. Day two we all read aloud, round robin of course. Day three we were place in our first basal, now known as a lit circle group. Books were so important, publishers designed new curriculum so that every student was reading by the end of the first week. These early readers had images that looked like what we could see in the classroom, beyond the classroom, even on the big screen. Reading is important, throughout history every generation has believed that “Reading” opens up the world for endless possibilities.

I adore the 1950’s Dick and Jane books. Actually, most reading specialists and experienced (45+) educators believe that every student learned to read with Dick and Jane. Since these books are being re-issued, I have heard many parents, grandparents, and students claim that Dick and Jane stories of repetition does teach students to read.

Early influences from my mother influenced my desire to read. I would watch her read and we would go on “secret” excursions to the library. The library became my playground. I owned every book I could carry home, of course they needed to be taken back to their home after visiting with me for a week or two. My first book that I could pull off of the library shelf and read was, Father Bear Comes Home. I only saw my dad on Sundays for a few hours. I would pull this beginning reader off of the library shelf every week. Every week I would try to read the first chapter. Every week I got further in the story. My mom would let me check it out, only if I could read it myself (She didn’t like the illustrations therefore she didn’t want to take time to read it to me). One day, I pulled the book from the shelf and when mom came to get me from the children’s corner, I realized that I had read the whole story. I ran to the check out desk and the Librarian KERCHUNKED the checkout card. My mother, brother and neighbors read. My teachers read. We all read aloud all day long in school. The Priest read aloud every day at mass, even in Latin. Everybody in the Doctor’s office read. People on the bus read. Dad’s waiting in their cars as the Mom’s and children grocery shopped, read. In fact, once you could read and write, Sunset Magazine considered you a reader and sent you mail every day.

Reading is important; I’ve spent my life reading. I’ve traveled around the world and into space through books. My favorite genre is whichever book I have open at the time. Children’s Literature is my passion. Book clubbing is one of the best past times, especially if food is involved. In fact my friends of old are in a book club and we are about to embark on a beach trip to “read” and discuss our newest selection.

My “home-run” book story has helped every student find his or her own “home-run” reads. Every year, I have shared my, Father Bear Comes Home, and every year my students have brought in their “home-run” books. That’s the “diving board” into our Lit. Studies.

In “Growing Up Digital,” Tapscott’s insights into the new generations enthusiasm for the Net reminded me of my generation’s enthusiasm for reading, movies, TV, parties and our driving permits. The Net-Generation, as Tapscott describes, “are learning, playing, communicating, working, creating communities, and enforcing a social transformation.”
N-Geners are interactive “techies” who are always looking for a way to “work it” verses the TV Generation of “Baby Boomers” who started out looking for “how it works.” Reading development is tougher today, society moves too fast to invest their “non-working” free time into a book or even “home work.” Since I stepped into my own classroom, I have seen students being told to read, being forced to read, and threatened into reading. Homework is not any longer the vehicle for students to gain their future lifestyles or careers with. Yet, the Internet does create an enthusiasm for learning. Since I have been enrolled in these courses, I have used the computers in every subject. My students are using the newest technology in the classroom because I am giving them investigative sites to use as they learn from each other and books. I agree with Tapscott, in order to bridge the gap with this up and coming generation we must “live and learn with them.”

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