Diet and Feeding Advice: Infancy
Recommendations
- Strongly encourage breast feeding.
- Hold infant for bottle feeding.
- Avoid giving bottles at bedtime or naptime.
- Don't use sweetened pacifiers.
- Introduce cup at six months.
- Wean bottle by 12 months.
- Avoid ad lib use of sippy cup unless it contains water.
- Recommend no juice in the first year of life.
- Healthy snack choices to promote a lifetime of healthy snack habits
Reference
Hagan, J. F., Shaw, J. S., & Duncan, P. M. (Eds.). (2017). Bright futures: Guidelines for health supervision of infants, children, and adolescents (4th ed.). American Academy of Pediatrics.