Super Baby Food
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ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you should know about feeding your baby and toddler from beginning solid foods through age three years. How and when to start your baby on solid foods, with detailed information on the best and safest high chair, spoons, bibs, and other feeding equipment. Which foods to introduce to your baby during each month of his first year, with details on proper food consistency, amount, and temperature. How much you can expect your baby to eat and drink during the months of her first year with information on her digestive system at each age. Interesting details on your baby’s physical, emotional, intellectual, and psychological development as it applies to self-feeding and mealtimes; … More >>
Super Baby Food
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As a family physician and new mother, I bought this book with interest. Overall, excellent principles of healthy baby diet, and excellent ways of preparing baby food at home. However, I was astounded by several key things. -Yaron recommends feeding a baby nuts – she doesn’t give a specific time frame to start, but talks extensively about how to prepare and feed them to “baby.” Nuts are HIGHLY allergenic, they are definitely not recommended before the first year and longer after that if a mother can help it. I have heard of a child suffering from anaphylactic shock from eating home made peanut butter at 8 months. -Yaron recommends preparing Spinach and Carrots at home, these two vegetables are not recommended for home preparation because of their high concentration of nitrates. Baby food companies screen these two vegetables so that only those from areas of the country with low nitrates can be served to baby. -Yaron makes comments such as, “the good old days” when you can buy tofu in a refrigerated bin where you can bag your own tofu…well this was ended for a specific reason, IT ISN”T SANITARY.
These glaring statements make this book one that I would not recommend for my patients. If you are aware of all the facts above and will double check some of her principles with other authorative text, then this is a good book on home preparing food in a wholesome, organic manner.
Rating: 4 / 5
There is a lot of great information in this book. However, there is also quite a bit of nutritional misinformation to go with it. So I found myself having to double-check any recommendation I didn’t already know about with another source which somewhat defeats the purpose of buying the book. That said I’m a complete kitchen klutz so having a book that explains exactly how to shop for, prepare and freeze each food is very helpful.
I’d just be very, very careful about using the exact diet as recommended for a baby under 1 year without consulting with your pediatrician first. For example, in order to avoid the “evil” meat, the book recommends introducing nuts, seeds & soy into the baby’s diet from a pretty early age. These foods are all high allergen foods and really are not any better for a small baby than some pureed chicken. The book also recommends liver powder — but organ meats are high in toxins. It also recommends cottage cheese starting at 6 months but cottage cheese has all the same problems as cow’s milk and should not be given until you are ready to start straight cow’s milk.
So in some senses I think the “cure” (a diet full of allergy-causing foods) is worse than the “disease” (eating meat once in a while).
The book is also not very bfing friendly… if you push solids in the amounts recommended here and as early as recommended here, you could easily have supply problems or your baby could self-wean by 9-10 months.
Rating: 3 / 5
I have never written a review of a book on amazon, but based on my experience with Super Baby Food I feel compelled to submit a review of this book. While this book has good tips on how to make and prepare your own baby food at home (and I found these to be very helpful), there are several major flaws that parents should be aware of:
1) This book is not well-organized and could be written with 1/3 the number of words utilized by this author. It is also chock-full of extraneous information and helpful “tips” on completely unrelated topics.
2) Alarmingly, this author promotes nuts and nut butters and recommends introducing these at 10 months of age. Peanuts are SEVERELY allergenic and can even cause anaphylactic shock, which can lead to throat constriction and even death in children and adults. The information on nut allergies is mentioned in a completely separate allergy chapter of the book and is not discussed in the chapter on nuts and nut butters. Because this book is incredibly dense, it is easy to forget about this reference by the time your baby is 10 months old and it is time, according to the author, to introduce nuts. Early introduction of nuts can reduce the likelihood that a child will outgrow this allergy. Most pediatricians now recommend waiting until 2 years to introduce nuts.
3) This author recommends home-prepared carrots, which I learned from another source contain nitrates and are dangerous for newborns.
4) This author has a superior attitude about her methodology, which is a little annoying. Her only scientific support for her approach is that she has two kids and they seem to have been sick less than other kids.
I would buy this book for the useful tips, but go in with eyes open to the flaws
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is for everyone with children. We have been using this book for eight months now with amazing success. Parents can use the information for making homemade babyfood, nutrtion info., food intro. timelines, many tot (my toddler that is) tested and approved recipes etc. I liked this book because I was nervous about not giving my infant enough nutrients,food allergies, as well as preparation techniques (I had NO experience in the kitchen) if I made my own babyfood. This book is for parents of all levels of experience. It will answer ALL of your questions (you can email the author if you have any unanswered) and walk you through step by step, and take the fright out of dealing with your child’s health and nutrition first hand. If you think you don’t have the time or the energy to do this, think again. Check this book out at the library, read a little and I’m positive you’ll want to add this book to your permanent collection. I could never have done it with so much confidence without this book. I have the HEALTHY 14 month old to proove it! I only gave this book four stars because there is an extra section that does not pertain to nutriton (kids crafts) that I do not use and really adds a lot of bulk to the book.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this book because I thought it would help me get a good grasp on how to feed my infant son when we started solid foods. My best friend had it, which is the best reccommendation I could get. However, I learned more just being around my best friend and her son. Sure, the book is great for the information about what is okay to feed at certain ages in the early months. But there are so many problems with the book, it makes you wonder how Ms. Yaron got published in the first place.
For starters, there’s the incorrect information. She says not to breastfeed at night after the baby gets teeth. Um, okay. My son broke his first tooth at four months, which is way too early to be eating a lot of solid foods. So what am I going to do, let him starve? Several other sources say that breastfeeding at night is not a problem for tooth decay, and may actually help with proper alignment. Strike One.
Second, she puts a heading at every paragraph. From the perspecitve of someone who reads a lot and has an English Degree, this book is a total nightmare to wade through. The text doesn’t flow in an understandable fashion, so you’re contstantly trying to get oriented. Strike Two.
And then there’s the preaching. With so many people already trying to tell us new parents what we should or shouldn’t be doing, one more guilt trip isn’t going to be a good thing. I’m pretty good at listening to my instincts and making my own decisions, so it was easy for me to completely disregard a large majority of what Ms. Yaron had to say. Strike Three.
And if all that weren’t enough, it’s as if Ms. Yaron doesn’t know how to cook! Some of her directions are just pathetic. I cook homemade meals every single day, so I feel confident in questioning her methods. You’re outta here, lady.
On some level, I feel guilty writing this scathing of a review. However, when it comes to parenting advice and information, there is a plethora of it, and so when writing yet another how-to baby book I would ask that authors keep it simple and succinct. No preaching. Just the facts.
Rating: 1 / 5