Promoting Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding, Bottle-Feeding, and the Introduction to Solid Foods

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 the quality and nature of caregiver-child interactions during breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and an introduction on how 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. Highlights the importance of responsive, or infant-led feeding practices and styles Promotes high-quality caregiver-infant interactions during breastfeeding, bottle-feeding and the introduction to solid foods Discusses the socioemotional and cognitive benefits of high-quality feeding interactions INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-323-88452-5
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 156
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés