Sentences with phrase «pediatricians encourage start»

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At around 6 months of age, usually when your pediatrician encourages you to start feeding the baby solid food, you might see another change, as many babies start sleeping through the night.

Many parents are encouraged by their doctors to feed their child pureed foods before they can start on solids, so it is important to not only follow your child's led, but their pediatricians as well.

Moreover, pediatricians routinely test babies and children they consider at risk for anemia and encourage iron supplementation starting as early as four months old in accordance with the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Choosing what those solid foods will be is incredibly important, but unfortunately most pediatricians encourage their patients to start rice cereal at about 4 to 6 months of age.

Many families introduce solid foods and liquids other than breast milk or formula early in life, often within the first few weeks.1 — 4,21 Reasons for the early introduction of food suggest that big infants are considered to be healthy22and solids are regarded as having more nutritional value and ability to satisfy infants, compared with formula.21 Mothers often look to their infants for cues regarding hunger and satiety and reason that with solid foods their infants will feel satisfied and will cry less and sleep through the night.21 Therefore, many mothers are encouraged by cultural norms transmitted through their families to start solid foods early in life, contrary to the recommendations that they may receive from WIC or from their pediatrician.