Melanie Potock

By Melanie Potock Children who resist trying new foods range from the garden-variety, hesitant “picky eater” to extremely selective. Deciphering the intricacies of where a child lies on the eating spectrum...

By Melanie Potock A recent study on selective eating has received a lot of attention recently in the news, covered in places like The Washington Post, Jane Brody’s Well column,...

By Sasha Brown-Worsham For the first seven years of motherhood, the subject of picky eating was my personal parenting third rail. A simple comment from another mom — “my children...

By Melanie Potock Almost every night for dinner for more than a year, my 2-year-old daughter food jagged on Cheerios and milk.  Kids who “food jag” rely heavily on a...

By Alice Callahan   My last post went into great detail about the research on age of starting solids and health outcomes, including nutrition, growth, illness, and allergies. If you...

By Judy Koutsky You may have heard about dream feeding from your neighbor or mom’s group, but you may not know exactly what it is. Here are the ins and...

By Erica Loop As you stand in the kitchen, spoon of pureed carrots in hand, you’re nervously excited for your little one to take this first step toward eating solids....

By Melanie Potock   In a March 2015 post titled Just Flip the Lip, we explored how the band of tissue or “frenum” that attaches the upper lip to gum tissue...

By Melanie Potock While many pediatric professionals are familiar with a tongue-tie, the elusive lip-tie hides in plain sight beneath the upper lip. Because I focus on feeding difficulties in...

By Erica Loop There are lots of “do’s” and “don’ts” when it comes to feeding your baby, but that doesn’t mean it has to be complicated. These easy-to-follow rules make...