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...You have always enjoyed breast feeding your little one. What could be better than some quiet time bonding with a snuggly bundle of love as many as 8 times a day? What a bonus that it’s the best source of nutrition for your little one. Recently though, it seems that the thought of weaning has crossed your mind once or twice. Maybe you’re going back to work and the long commute, crazy schedule and...

...When Makenzie was 18 months old, she suffered a serious global brain injury after choking on a cracker. After five and a half weeks in the pediatric intensive care unit and intensive rehabilitation, she was released with a feeding tube in her stomach and a prescription for a hydrolysate formula called Peptamen Jr. For 11 months Mackenzie would throw up after every feeding. Her mother, Pam, took Makenzie for allergy tests, which revealed that...

...Infants, especially older infants, can have trouble changing to a formula with a different taste and consistency to what they’re used to. We can’t provide medical advice, so the first and most important thing to do is to talk to your healthcare team! We’ve got a great resource, below, but here are a few points: Some feeding specialists and pediatricians often recommend sticking with the straight Neocate. This depends on the clinician – it often...

...Nutrition plays an important role in proper growth during childhood. Children with food allergies must restrict certain foods from their diet, which may make them susceptible to nutritional deficiencies and growth problems. In addition to restricting allergenic foods, some children with food allergies have feeding problems which further restrict their nutritional intake. In 2002, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association published research showing that children with two or more food allergies were...

...with a certain food, don’t give up on it or assume that your child doesn’t like it. A certain degree of “neophobia,” or the fear of new foods, is normal for toddlers and young children. According to Angela Haas, a speech language pathologist and feeding therapist with many years of experience, children may need up to 20 exposures to a new food before they will accept it. So, if the first try isn’t successful, continue...

...distinctive nutritional requirements, based on recognized scientific principles, are established by medical evaluation. A food is subject to this exemption only if: (i) It is a specially formulated and processed product (as opposed to a naturally occurring foodstuff used in its natural state) for the partial or exclusive feeding of a patient by means of oral intake or feeding by tube; (ii) It is intended for the dietary management of a patient who, because of...