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Library Materials - Infant Nutrition
Listed Alphabetically by Title
365 Foods Kids Love To Eat (1995)
Sheila Ellison and Judith Gray
Includes 365 recipes for snacks, fruits, salads, soups, breakfasts, and foods for your baby. Also contains sections focusing on do-it-yourself ideas for kids, foreign dishes, lunch box ideas, holidays, and children’s parties.
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Being Active at Child Care (From the Active Me, Healthy Me Series 2 of 3) (2002)
United Learning
2 of 3 in the Active Me, Healthy Me Series. Includes one videocassette and one facilitator's guide. 15 minutes long. This program emphasizes to childcare providers the enoumous impact that physical activity plays in the prevention of childhood obesity and its subsequent long-term health risks. It focuses on the benefits of physical activity for all ages from birth through pre-school. The importance of establishing good habits now, at an early age, are discussed.
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Breastfeeding Basics: From Birth to 1 Year (From Breastfeeding Your Baby Series 2 of 2) (2002)
United Learning
2 of 2 in Breastfeeding Your Baby Series. 14 minutes long. This video encourages women to breastfeed for as long as possible, concentrating on birth to one year. A lactation consultant gives practical advice on starting up, "latching on", breastfeeding positions, milk production, how often to breastfeed, expectations, engorgement, how to pump and store milk safely, and healthy eating habits! Another issue stresses the importance of continuing to breastfeed even if you are going back to work.
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Breastfeeding Counseling Guide (1989)
Mary Rose Tully and Mary L. Overfield
This counseling guide is intended to provide facts and suggestions for frequently encountered breastfeeding questions and problems. Topics have been arranged from the most commonly encountered to the least frequently encountered in each section. Sections include engorgement, sore nipples, breast problems, fussy baby, weight gain, jaundice illness, prematurity, mothers' concerns, supplements, pumping working, solids weaning, special situations, drugs, teaching guides, and resources.
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Breastfeeding: The Best Beginning (From Breastfeeding Your Baby Series 1 of 2) (2002)
United Learning
1 of 2 in Breastfeeding Your Baby Series. 14 minutes long. Detailed benefits of breastfeeding for both the baby and the mom are presented. The nutritional component of this program reviews healthy eating habits during pregnancy and lactation, urges daily physical activities, and stresses abstinence from drugs, alcohol, and tobaccol. Other topics included: early stages of breastfeeding, expectations, signs of trouble, and when to check with yoru health care provider.
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Bright Futures Activity Book (2000)
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
Provides parents with the opportunity to teach their children about health and safety, nutrition, physical activity, self-expression, and oral health.
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Bright Futures in practice - Nutrition: User's Guide (2000)
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
This user's guide was designed to provide an overview of Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition and to assist health professionals in using the information and materials in that guide. See Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition for details.
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Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition (2000)
Mary Story, Katrina Holt, and Denise Sofka
Emphasizes prevention and early recognition of nutritional concerns. Provides developmental guidelines from the prenatal period through adolescence.
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Child of Mine - Feeding with Love and Good Sense - 2nd Edition (2000)
Ellyn Satter
Shows parents what healthy and normal eating is all about and helps them heal from their own eating and growing-up history. The second edition covers nutrition and food selection, feeding dynamics, and child physical, emotional, and social development.
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Classroom Activities In Nutrition in Teenage Pregnancy (1990)
Herbert J. Grover
Lessons 1 to 13 cover diverse nutrition in teenage pregnancy topics, including prenatal issues for mother and infant. Lessons 14 to 18 discuss nutrition for all teenagers and teach information organized around the "Five Food Groups." The resources section includes a broad range of publications, films, filmstrips, and other support materials for the SAPAR or other instructors interested in nutrition in teenage pregnancy.
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Crib to Kindergarten - Curriculum for Parents of Infants and Young Children (2003)
Katherine L. Cason, Ph.D., R.D.
This notebook provides information for parents of infants and young Children. It includes six lesson plans: partners for healthy eating; feeding children through their ages and stages (from newborn to toddlers); say "yes" to family meals; keep on snacking; brighten up with breakfast; and healthy moves. It also includes additional resources, parents and children sharing food tasks (videotape), and Bread and Jam for Frances (children's book). A CD-ROM with all the information is also included.
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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) English Handouts (1994)
University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, Washington State University and Purdue University by Barbara Willenberg, Karla Hughes, Sharon Gann and Karen Elliott
Black and White, copy ready, English handouts designed for use with the curriculum entitles "EFNEP Lessons". Curriculum designed for use by nutrition educators with low income resource stressed audiences. See EFNEP Lessons available from the NIRC for further description of curriculum.
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Feeding with Love & Good Sense (1997)
Ellyn Satter
Four videos, with teacher's guides, that use nutrition and feeding as a vehicle to teach parenting. The videos cover infants, older babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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Feeding Your Baby, A Special Video for New Mothers (1993)
Mead Johnson Pediatrics
This three-part video has been developed and produced by lactation consultants, doctors, nurses and breastfeeding mothers. Part one describes how breastfeeding is a natural and learned process, for both you and your baby. The second part provides information for parents who want to combine breastfeeding with bottle feeding. The third part is designed for parents who want to use an infant formula.
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Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health - Birth through Age Six (1999)
Susan Roberts
Introduces research into “metabolic programming” and makes it accessible and practical for every busy parent. This book explains how the foods you choose can optimize your baby’s future development, IQ, bone strength, and immunity.
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FIT Kids! The Complete Shape-Up Program from Birth through High School (1999)
Kenneth Cooper
Contains training instructions, meal plans, and helpful, easy-to-read reference charts. The author offers a total program of diet and exercise customized for every age from preschoolers to teenagers.
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For the Health of It: Maternal & Infant Nutrition (1989)
University of Georgia
Discusses breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and diet during pregnancy. Also addresses the introduction of solids, selecting nutritious baby foods, the use of breast pumps and the need for vitamin and mineral supplements.
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Handbook of Child Nutrition (1998)
L.S. Taitz and B. Wardley
A short, practical guide for health professionals who have no special knowledge of nutrition but who have to deal with nutritional and dietary problems and questions in children during their general work.
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Handbook of Pediatric Nutrition (1999)
Patricia Queen Samour, Kathy King Helm, and Carol Lang
Reflects the state of the art in scientific knowledge regarding pediatric nutrition. It contains 26 chapters covering a wide range of topics, including nutrition counseling, botanicals, cancer, and AIDS.
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Harold and His Amazing Green Plants (1984)
Disney Educational Productions
In this animated program, Harold's pet is a seed. He's not terribly excited about that, until three vegetable friends explain the amazing feats which his seed can accomplish. From inside his pet seed, Harold watches with "growing" interest, its developement of roots to its remarkable photosynthesis. He learns, too, how seeds are dispersed and where plants fit into the food chain.
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How To Get Your Kid to Eat...But Not Too Much - From Birth to Adolescence (1997)
Ellyn Satter
About real life feeding situations, the things that go wrong, and what it takes to fix them. And the things that go right. And how they got that way.
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Kids Count Data Book 2001 - State Profiles of Child Well-Being (2001)
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The raw numbers contained in the 12th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book paint a statistical portrait of the condition of America's children. Using 10 indicators, this resource profiles individual states and the District of Columbia, graphs state indicators over time, ranks states by indicators and includes color coded maps. This information is also available on line at www.kidscount.org.
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Nutrition Education in Action: Feeding Infants & Children (1997)
New Mexico State University, College of Agriculture & Home Economics
This 60-minute video is one of eighteen in the Nutrition Education in Action series. The video is designed to help nutrition educators teach about feeding infants and children in a hands-on, learner-centered manner. Michigan State's "Eating Right is Basic" flip chart of the same name is discussed page by page.
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Nutrition Education in Action: Feeding Your New Baby (1997)
New Mexico State University, College of Agriculture & Home Economics
This 49-minute video is one of eighteen in the Nutrition Education in Action series. The video is designed to help nutrition educators teach mothers about feeding their new baby in a hands-on, learner-centered manner. Michigan State's "Eating Right is Basic" flip chart of the same name is discussed page by page.
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Nutrition in Infancy and Childhood - 6th Edition (1997)
Cristine Trahms and Peggy Pipes
Offers nutrition information related to both growth and development, and also normal and abnormal conditions in infancy and childhood.
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Parenting Rewards & Responsibilities (Transparency Sampler) (2000)
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
This transparency sampler includes 8 full-color sample transparencies, teaching suggestions for use with each of the 8 sample transparencies, and titles of the 44 transparencies from the Complete Transparency Package.
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Pediatric Nutrition Handbook - 4th Edition (1998)
American Academy of Pediatrics
A reference book for practicing clinicians on requirements and metabolism of specific nutrients, nutrition support of healthy infants and children, and nutrition for children with acute and chronic illness.
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Present Knowledge in Nutrition; Eighth Edition (2001)
Barbara A. Bowman and Robert M. Russell (editors)
This text includes chapters on energy physiology, macronutrients, fat and water soluble vitamins, minerals and trace elements, and nutrition and the life cycle. It also includes chapters on physiology and pathophysiology and nutrition and chronic disease such as obesity, diabetes, and osteoporosis. International nutrition including food insecurity and hunger, and emerging issues in nutrition such as food safety are also discussed. The writing style is scientific and detailed.
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Spanish Language Nutrition Program (1994)
Adapted for Missouri Use from University of Wisconsin, Michigan State Universtisy, Washington State University and Purdue University
Black and White, copy ready, Spanish handouts designed for use with the curriculum entitled "EFNEP Lessons". Curriculum designed for use by nutrition educators with low income resource stressed audiences. See EFNEP Lessons available from the NIRC for further description of curriculum.
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Starting Solid Foods: Lily Helps Ana (2000)
AGC Media Group
This video is 13 minutes long. It advises mothers to make the transition to solid foods a happy, healthy, and nurturing experience. This video also provides suggestions on what to do if your child is choking, which foods may cause allergies, what safety precautions you should take when preparing food for your infant and more.
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Teenage Moms (1991)
Holly Alley
There are 9 basic lessons for pregnant teens. Each lesson has a section of Activity/Research Choices which can turn one lesson into many different lessons.The topics includes what is TAMS, what should I eat, healthy weight for pregnancy, special nutrient needs, if it's not one thing, it's another, for health's sake, don't (smoking, alcohol - FAS - and other drugs, pica), fast foods and healthy snacks, decisions for feeding your baby, feeding toddlers.
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Tip-Top Tots: The Nutrition Pyramid for Preschoolers (1994)
Meridian Education Corporation
Teaches childcare providers how to positively influence eating patterns of infants and toddlers. Familiarizes providers with the Food Guide Pyramid, including appropriate serving sizes.
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To Help Your Tiny New Baby! (1998)
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Describes how to give your baby "kangaroo care" while in the hospital, and how it will make both you and baby feel good. Comes in the following languages: English, Vietnamese, Laotian, Russian, Chinese and Khmer.
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Vermont Best Start: A Breastfeeding Curriculum
University of Vermont Extension
This 8-session breastfeeding curriculum targets pregnant and nursing women who are interested in learning more about breastfeeding. Some sessions specifically address concerns of the pregnant women, others focus solely on concerns of the postpartum mother, and some sessions address topics that might arise at any time during pregnancy or lactation.
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