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

  • 1st Edition - August 3, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Alison Ventura
  • Language: English

Promoting Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding, Bottle-Feeding, and the Introduction to Solid Foods　addresses how caregiver feeding practices and styles shape the quality and ou… Read more

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Dieticians, nutritionists, lactation consultants and educators, pediatricians, nurses and other health professionals, along with researchers working in these fields

Table of 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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 17, 2022
  • Language: English

About the author

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Alison Ventura

Alison Ventura received a B.S. in Psychology with an emphasis in Biology and a minor in Community Nutrition from the University of California, Davis. She then earned two Master’s degrees from the Pennsylvania State University: one in Nutritional Sciences and the other in Human Development and Family Studies. In 2008, she earned her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. From 2008-2011, Dr. Ventura was a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a taste and smell research institute in Philadelphia, PA. For the past decade, Dr. Ventura’s research has primarily focused on infant feeding interactions and understanding how these interactions affect the development of eating behaviors and growth trajectories across infancy and early childhood.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Public Health, Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

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