3 Fabulously High Calorie Foods You’re Probably Not Feeding Your Preemie Toddler
My daughter may only be in the 10th percentile for weight, but I always describe her as a “great eater.” Why? She always surprises me with her adventurous culinary choices.…
View ArticleIdeas for Feeding Preemie Toddlers (and maintaining your sanity), Part 1
Having an extremely underweight preemie and being a first time mom was a pretty brutal combination. While I was thrilled that my daughter was meeting her developmental milestones, my confidence…
View Article3 Healthy & High Calorie Snacks for Preemie Toddlers
So, what’s a high calorie snack? By my definition, a high calorie snack is anything close to 100 calories that my child will happily gobble up without any coaxing from…
View Article4 Inspiring & Practical Books on Feeding Babies and Toddlers
I’ve lost count of how many parenting, child development, and child-geared cookbooks, blogs, and articles that I’ve read. After 50 parenting books alone, I stopped counting. In fact, I knew…
View ArticleWorkaround Wednesday–Portion Sizes: Tiny is Mighty!
If you want your child to eat more, try serving her tinier portions and offering refills. OK, so it may seem counter-intuitive to serve your child tiny portions when you…
View ArticleWeird, High Calorie or High Nutrient Snacks for Your Preemie Toddler
So, I’m always weighing snack options, figuring out how nutritious they are, what sort of eating habits they’ll foster (sugar cravings? salt cravings? over-dependence on refined carbs?), how appealing...
View ArticleWorkaround Wednesday-Casually Introducing New Foods
“Do you see what I have to work with?” I found myself laughingly saying to my dad as Pixie declined a decadent, chocolate Easter egg. “Who turns down Easter candy?”…
View ArticleWorkaround Wednesday-Naturally Novel Food Formats
When Pixie started eating solids, I pored over cookbooks geared toward toddler meals. I was so excited to finally be able to try all those adorable food presentations: smiley face…
View ArticleIntroducing Solids to Preemies: Beyond Rice Puffs!
So, we all know how fun that heightened preemie gag reflex is, especially when introducing solids, right? (By the way, the baby pictured above is Panda, my very healthy, full-term…
View ArticleTandem Nursing Preemie Twins: Guest Post from Jessica Snell
I am over-the-moon excited to bring you this guest post from Jessica Snell, of Homemaking Through the Church Year. She successfully nursed her preemie twins and has some wise, ultra-practical,…
View ArticleAnd sometimes…your child’s meal ends up looking like raw hamburger meat.
Pixie loves bright colors. She’s irresistibly drawn to any food that’s an unnaturally bright shade of blue (yes, blue!?!) or is dotted with rainbow sprinkles. However, after hearing about the…
View ArticleThis must be what a normal appetite looks like! :)
We had one of those awesome dinners tonight. You know the kind: it’s the dinner during which your child voluntarily devours massive amounts of healthy food and all you do…
View ArticleChicken Soup through a Straw (aka, Chicken Soup for a Sick Preemie)
Well, my Pixie is down with a yucky summer cold. Preemies and colds a horrible combination because a stuffy nose = no ability to taste which = no appetite which…
View ArticleNoodles in Mint Broth…in a Bathtub?!
An alternative title to this post could have been: Sensory Exploration Activity Unexpectedly Becomes a Snack. We’ve been enjoying a long stretch of unusually mild, August weather here in Southern…
View ArticlePreemie Friendly High Chair Review: Stokke vs. Svan
Sorry to have been away from this space for a bit! Life got a bit busy with summer visitors, new classes for Pixie (more on that later), and celebrating Panda’s…
View ArticleWorkaround Wednesday: (Frozen) Soup Shots for Extra Nutrients!
One of the great things about having a 14 month old and an almost-4-year old is that I get to try my hand at making baby food all over again.…
View ArticleWhen all else fails, make a smoothie!
It’s been a looooong week here. We’ve been inundated with gorgeous, sunny, park-friendly weather….and stuck at home with a sick Pixie and Panda. They caught the gross cold that’s…
View ArticleBalance and Guilt-Free Changes in Diet
Today, Meghan Telpner has a great mini Q & A Session on how to handle major diet changes without guilt. Her video starts with a reader question: “How do I…
View ArticleTurn-Arounds for Picky Eaters from “Your Kid’s Table”!
It’s always fun to hear from a professional–in this case, an Occupational Therapist–who is parenting a picky eater. I enjoyed this mom’s candid description of the arduous, daily task of…
View Articlecooking with your child: what if she loves the process but hates the product?
So many articles give the same advice for getting picky eaters to try new things and eat more: go shopping for ingredients with your little one and then involve him…
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