Main description:

Promoting Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding, Bottle-Feeding, and the Introduction to Solid Foods addresses how caregiver feeding practices and styles shape the quality and outcome of feeding interactions during infancy. Emphasis is placed on how the quality and nature of caregiver-child interactions during breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and the introduction to solid foods shape the development of children's eating behaviors, growth trajectories and chronic disease risk. The book also considers the potential influence of broader contextual factors on early feeding interactions, including how psychological, social, cultural and economic factors may influence caregivers' abilities to implement feeding recommendations.

Contents:

1. An Introduction to Feeding Infants Well 2. Healthy Beginnings 3. Ideal Infant Weight Gain and Growth 4. How Infants Communicate and Self-Regulate 5. The Importance of Responsive Feeding 6. Feeding Infants Well during Breastfeeding 7. Feeding Infants Well during Bottle-feeding 8. Feeding Infants Well during the Introduction of Solids 9. Distracted Feeding: Concerns and Considerations 10. Potential Psychological, Social, and Contextual Influences on Early Feeding Interactions 11. Conclusions