Use this guide to raise an adventurous eater

Parenting a Picky Eater

Use this guide to raise an adventurous eater

RICHMOND, Va – Melanie Potock, MA, CCC-SLP and Dr. Nimali Fernando, MPH talked about their new joint venture, “ Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater,” a step-by-step guide to encouraging your child to be an adventurous eater.

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🍝Your picky eater only eats plain or buttered noodles? Use my step-by-step solution to gradually introduce the sauce of your choice!

✨Start with the tiniest bit of sauce at the bottom of a bowl. Kids can participate in these steps if it’s not too stressful for them. For kids who are very anxious, you might start with their favorite plain pasta in one bowl and the final product from this reel in a bowl set next to it. Every kid is different… But let’s keep going here with the final steps:

✨Add pasta and stir well.

✨Here’s the most important part: add more pasta and stir again. Why? Because that pasta will be lighter in color and hold less sauce then the pasta you first stirred in… And now your child has options to pick the lightest (least saucy!) pasta from the bowl.

✨Bonus tip: Add two or three plain noodles to the top of the pile for those kids who are very hesitant about sauce. If they just fork those three noodles that’s awesome! This technique takes time and breaking it down into even smaller steps maybe the magic for your child.
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✨Giveaway time!✨ When a copy of my most recent book, RESPONSIVE FEEDING!

I’ll announce the winner in the comments on Sunday. One comment per person, please. Giveaway ends as soon as 50 people comment. What could be easier?😉

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👍🏼Here’s what to do when baby starts to suck their thumb or fingers while awake…

✨Offer a favorite teether that has sensory bumps on it. Those little bumps are magical – they satisfy baby by stimulating nerve endings in the gums, lips and tongue that are alerting.

👉🏼There’s more to know…

👋🏼We want babies exploring their mouth with their little fingers, thumbs, fists and wrists! We want to see mouthing, gentle biting, etc. But it’s oh-so-easy for this exploration phase to turn into thumb or finger sucking for prolonged periods of time. Depending on the intensity, duration and frequency of the digit sucking, it may change the shape of baby’s plate and mouth structures.

❓Why is that important? 👉🏼Because unintended changes in facial growth due to thumb/finger sucking may be related to speech, feeding and airway issues as baby grows.

🤔Wait – so they SHOULD chew/mouth fingers, but not suck on them? YEP.

💜THUS, if baby sucks while awake, offer a teether with sensory bumps.

😴BUT, if baby begins to suck while falling asleep, it’s ok to let them suck for a few minutes to calm and regulate their body for sleep. But once they are drowsy, gently pop out that thumb whenever possible.

✨AND…discouraging it during the daytime will help tremendously, in my experience with babies and toddlers. They are less likely to make it a habit if we find other ways to address their need for oral stimulation with fun teethers, like this one from ezpzfun.com . Be sure to use my affiliate code MELANIE10 for 10% any purchase at ezpz – this teether is also an oral development tool from the set of 3 “Oral Development Tools” at ezpzfun.com. You can read all about the advantages of the 3 tools on their site – or just DM me for more info, and I’ll send you the direct link!

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