Learning online with Deakin
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Course: Infant Nutrition: from Breastfeeding to Baby's First Solids
Vegetarian and vegan diets
Plant based diets are increasingly popular and they are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including infancy, childhood, pregnancy and breastfeeding. In Australia, it’s estimated that around 9–11% …
Extreme fussy eating in children
For some children, fussy eating is a persistent struggle that can lead to health concerns for parents and carers. Understanding the reasons behind the fussiness and when to seek professional …
More practical advice from Professor Karen Campbell
The more practical strategies you have at your disposal, the easier feeding your baby will be. Here, Professor Karen Campbell shares a few more of her own practical tips. Prepare …
Practical tips to promote healthy eating for babies
Having skills and strategies is important in all aspects of our parenting, and this is very true for feeding as well. Developing good eating habits Here, we continue this discussion …
Fussing about food: dealing with food rejection
Children can exert enormous power over parents when they sense the stakes are high. This is, of course, the case when it comes to feeding young infants. Many parents find …
Sodium: what you need to know about salt
While eating too much sodium (commonly known as salt) in early life is of concern, there are many simple strategies to help to reduce the amount of sodium in the …
How much food do babies need?
Breastmilk or infant formula are the key sources of nutrients for a young infant but these foods will progressively be replaced by family foods from around six to 12 months …
Baby-led weaning
Baby-led weaning is an approach to feeding babies their first foods that has gained popularity in recent years. In this approach: the baby feeds themselves (ie there is no spoon …
Infant Nutrition: Introducing Solid Foods
You may think something as natural as transitioning from breast or formula milk to solid foods would be quite simple, yet we know that many parents feel very anxious about …
When should babies start solid foods?
While advice about when to introduce solid foods to infants varies around the world, most countries recommend that solids should be offered at around six months of age and not …
Welcome back
Hello and welcome to Week 2 of Infant Nutrition. Last week, we focused on the importance of good nutrition in an infant’s diet over the first six months of life. …
What’s on for next week?
While the first week of our course focused on an infant’s first six months of life and was all about milk, the second week of our course is all about …
Best-practice feeding with formula
For new parents who can’t or choose not to breastfeed, it’s important that we support them to feed formula in the best way possible to promote the optimal growth and …
Is infant formula a substitute for breastmilk?
When breastmilk is not an option, infant formula is the only suitable alternative. Historically, parents have been advised to make up their own infant formulas using a range of products. …
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Infant Nutrition: from Breastfeeding to Baby's First Solids
