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9-12 Months: Exploring New Tastes - Keeping your Baby Healthy |
Your baby’s diet will impact his health and affect his mood, energy levels, and sleeping patterns too. Ensuring that he is eating well will go a long way toward encouraging optimum health. And when he does get sick, there is plenty you can do to help him to recover quickly and easily. |
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Your Toddler Month by Month : 2–3 Years - What Toddlers Want and Need (part 2) |
Although your toddler is now old enough to understand that his behavior has had an effect, he is still too young to understand the reasons why it has had an effect. It will be another year or two before your toddler’s moral reasoning skills have developed , enabling you to explain the rights and wrongs of his behavior. |
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9-12 Months: Exploring New Tastes - Fads and Faves |
It’s sometimes hard, but try to avoid offering your baby anything with added sugar, and make sure that his meals are based around vegetables rather than fruit, which are naturally sweeter. Try also to offer fruit purées only when he has had his fill of her vegetable purées. |
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9-12 Months: Exploring New Tastes - Healthy Family Habits |
One of the best ways to introduce your baby to a variety of healthy foods and to discourage fussy eating is to encourage her to eat family food. So pull up her chair, and start encouraging healthy eating alongside the whole family. |
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9-12 Months: Exploring New Tastes - Your Baby Gourmet |
You’ll be amazed by what your baby will eat. Introduce your little one to new textures and tastes as early and as often as you can to establish healthy and diverse eating habits that he will carry with him into childhood and adult life. |
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Planning Other Fun Stuff : Hobbies, Socializing & Free Time |
As difficult as it may be to believe, if you've chosen wisely, scheduled properly, and acted efficiently, then you'll have some totally free time left over. And, because energy and creativity are often the result of a few moments of peace, free time can be an important part of your family's schedule . |
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9-12 Months: Exploring New Tastes - Fun with Finger Foods (part 2) |
Finger sandwiches are good for children of all ages, for lunch or a snack. I like to flatten the bread—this does make a difference for small children, as they get a better ratio of filling to bread, and the sandwiches are suited to little mouths. Keep fillings fairly smooth. |
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9-12 Months: Exploring New Tastes - Fun with Finger Foods (part 1) |
Finger foods are a wonderful way to introduce your baby to various tastes and textures, and will help to encourage independent eating. Your baby will enjoy the process of feeding himself as well as the new variety of foods that you offer. The more you encourage this process, the easier the transition will be. |
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9-12 Months: Exploring New Tastes - Breast Milk and More |
Until your baby is at least 12 months old, she will need, at the very minimum, 20fl oz (600ml) of formula milk or breast milk every single day. Some babies might need more, particularly if they are heavier and growing quickly. |
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6-9 Months: Ready for Food - Food and Health |
Your baby may be reluctant to eat when he is feeling under the weather, but keeping him hydrated and offering small, nutrient-dense meals can help him to recover quickly and easily. |
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6-9 Months: Ready for Food - Sophisticated Tastes |
There is no reason why your baby’s food has to be bland! Adding different types of herbs and spices will help her become accustomed to more sophisticated tastes. The younger she is when you start, the easier it will be for her to make the transition to family food. |
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Your Toddler Month by Month : 18–24 Months - Just for Parents |
One of the largest areas of contention in any home is the tricky matter of chores. When children are added into the mix, a simple discussion about who could do what can easily descend into an argument about what is fair, who does the most, and whose fault it is that you have a messy toddler. |
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6-9 Months: Ready for Food - Part of the Family |
While many of the foods you offer your family may be a little heavy for your young baby, there is no reason why you can’t involve him in family meals, and purée some of the elements of every meal you prepare. Babies love to feel part of the crowd, and will enjoy eating the same food as everyone else. |
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6-9 Months: Ready for Food - Feeding Problems |
Some babies find the transition to solid foods easy, while others can be more resistant. Try to stick to a daily routine, even if you are out and about, or on vacation. It’s not always easy, but with a little ingenuity and a good thermos, you’ll soon overcome any problems. |
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Your Toddler Month by Month : 18–24 Months - Managing Behavior |
Your toddler is too young to understand “right and wrong” or why certain behavior is unacceptable, but she understands and likes routine, and thrives on your approval. As she gets closer to two years, she will understand that most behavior has good or bad consequences. |
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Your Toddler Month by Month : 18–24 Months - What Toddlers Want and Need |
Children’s food and family mealtimes can become fraught with anxiety if parents have not devised a workable routine or have unrealistic expectations about their child’s needs and wants. It is all too easy to misunderstand a toddler’s reaction to food by interpreting it from an adult perspective. |
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6-9 Months: Ready for Food - Balance and Variety |
As parents we have a responsibility to ensure that our little ones get everything they need to grow up strong and healthy. That doesn’t mean serving boring “health” food, but encouraging a fresh, delicious and varied diet that will provide your baby with all the key nutrients she needs. |
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