Feeding Infants and Babies

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Healthy Eating For Baby.

If you’re like most parents, you probably have a lot of questions about what you should be feeding your baby, especially if you’re new to this parenting business.

From breastfeeding to the first solid foods and beyond, DrGreene’s Nutrition for Babies & Infants Topic Center guides you through nutrition for your littlest family members.

Breastfeeding Baby
- Breast to Bottle – Nipple to Cup
  Weaning means gradually getting used to a change. Dr. Greene talks about the process of weaning from breast to ...»
- Pyloric Stenosis
  Pyloric stenosis can occur in boys or girls, but it is much ...»
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Bottle Feeding Baby
- Hiccups
  Hiccups are frequent, sudden contractions of the diaphragm muscle. They can be caused by irritation or ...»
- Gastroesophageal Reflux
  GE reflux wears many faces. You might see a baby who spits up all the time...an adult with heartburn...a child ...»
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Infant Feeding
- Thrush
  Thrush, or oral pseudomembranous candidiasis, is a superficial yeast infection that is found in about 5 percent ...»
- Iron Deficiency
  The most common reason for a child to be anemic is an inadequate supply of iron. Iron is a mineral that your body ...»
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Feeding Babies
- Constipation
  When a child is constipated, the stool in the intestines has backed up more than it should. The longer stool sits ...»
- Infant Botulism
  Sometimes constipation and slow feeding are the only symptoms of infant botulism, a disease that is sometimes caused ...»
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Child Behavior and Nutrition
- Obesity
  Obesity, or over-nutrition, is the generalized accumulation of fat both beneath the skin and throughout the body. ...»
- Type I Diabetes
  Type 1 diabetes most often strikes young people, especially between the ages of 5 and 7 (when viruses run through ...»
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Eating Challenges
- Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease
  Hand-foot-mouth disease is a common childhood illness featuring mouth sores, fever, and a rash. Similar-sounding ...»
- Celiac Disease
  Celiac disease is a food sensitivity to gluten, which is protein found primarily in wheat, rye, and barley. In ...»
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Food Allergies
- Hives
  Hives are a sign that the whole body is experiencing a hypersensitivity reaction. Hives occur when the body's ...»
- Food Allergies
  Food allergy is the name given to a variety of situations in which specific foods provoke some type of ...»
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Food Health and Safety
- Toxoplasmosis
  Toxoplasma gondii is a one-celled parasite that sometimes causes devastating effects on unborn children if their ...»
- Staph
  Most or all children get some form of Staph infection. Those with an underlying chronic disease, such as ...»
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Tips for Avoiding Repetitive Stress Injuries

For most children, it takes many more hours of cumulative trauma than it does for an adult to cause aches or tingling (this can happen, though -- it's amazing how long a kid can stay glued to a computer game without a break). Click here for more of Dr. Greene’s Tips For Avoiding Repetitive Stress Injuries.

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