Food Allergies, February 4, 2024 in New Jersey (PM)

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✨🛒✨Once baby’s sitting upright and able to ride buckled into a grocery cart, try my hack to provide more trunk stability to reduce the risk of choking on snacks & samples. (Hello Costco!)

👋🏼Hi, I’m Melanie, a pediatric feeding specialist here to help you raise healthy, happy eaters! Follow me for daily tips!

🛒Grocery cart seats offer no trunk support for kids, even if you use a cloth “cart cover” to protect from germs. Trunk stability is essential to reduce the risk of choking. Even adults are more likely to choke when seated in slumped position, when looking upward while eating or while stopping and going…and that’s exactly what your kiddo is experiencing riding the cart while you’re shopping.

✨🛒✨TRY MY HACK: If you’re no longer using your infant head support in your car seat, you can remove it to use as a back rest in the grocery cart. First, wipe down that cart! Second, use the Velcro straps to attach the padded support to the wired back, in between the safety buckles. This puts your child’s hips in correct alignment so that the back is upright, creating a safer path for food to be swallowed, rather than inhaled. ALWAYS use the safety belt.

✅Check your car seat manufacturer’s recommendations on how long you need to use the infant head support. In my experience, it’s “optional” and not typically recommended past the age of 4 to 6 months, unless there are medical reasons to do so.

✨🛒✨BONUS TIP: YOUR KID HAS TO LOOK UP AT YOU from a grocery cart seat. When kids tilt their head back, they increase the risk of choking. SO, If you’re baby needs a snack while you shop, offer meltable foods like O-shaped cereal, pieces of freeze-dried strawberries or crackers that melt very easily in the mouth. ALWAYS offer the food LOW & SLOW, so that your hand places the piece in their hand (close to the handle of the cart).
I’ll say it again - NEVER hold the food above them, always offer low and slow and one piece at a time please.

🥰I hope you found this helpful! Happy shopping!

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Just don’t forget the ketchup… or the wine. 🍷

Thanksgiving and picky eaters … it’s always a good time!🎶🎶 😉

❤️ Please share this with someone who needs a little encouragement to get through the upcoming holiday.

🥰 Many thanks to the inspiration for this post, the wonderful Laura Joffe Numeroff, author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 🍪 ❤️

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🤍Want to prevent picky eating in your toddler and preschooler?

🤍🤍🤍Here are 3 resources to guide you. But first, let’s rephrase this. Preventing picky eating IS POSSIBLE if a child doesn’t have medical, motor, sensory or other “feeding” issues that are getting in the way of becoming a picky eater.

So…try these three strategies:

1.✨Invest in a really good book to guide you – COMMENT #BOOKS for all my books. The award-winning Raising a Healthy Happy Eater, written with pediatrician Dr. Yum, is a step-by-step guide to raising an adventurous eater!
2.✨Offer about a tablespoon of new food(s) at each meal. Exposure is everything! One tablespoon isn’t a waste if they don’t eat it, because they SAW IT. That’s the first step. (More in the book above.)
3.✨GET HELP EARLY. Please don’t “wait and see” if your kid’s going to grow out of it. One out of four typically developing kids will develop a feeding disorder, where it’s more than picky. Ask your pediatrician for a referral for feeding therapy is you have any concerns, at all.

🤍✨🤍Bonus Tip:
Mark my page as a FAVORITE please, so you get daily tips. I’m so grateful that you’re following me. Thank you!
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