Learn about your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
Learn about baby formula. Read about how to prepare the formula, how to create schedules and amounts, and how to prevent baby bottle tooth decay.
Learn about what a premature baby needs to eat and how they can get proper nutrition.
Read about feeding a baby with a heart condition. It is best to breastfeed, but if you cannot, you can express your breast milk to keep up your milk volume.
Discover the various stages of your baby's nutrition and how to handle issues such as spitting up.
Read about various nutrition and feeding consultants, such as dietitians and lactation consultants, who work to ensure that babies and children with heart conditions receive proper nutrition.
Enteral nutrition is any method of feeding that uses the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to deliver nutrition to your child. It can include food given through their mouth or through a feeding tube.
Read about useful tips to care for infant skin, nails, teeth and gums.
Supplementation is a way to give your baby extra nutrition and calories while breastfeeding. Read about what supplies are required and tips for successful feeding.
An in-depth list of recommended foods for older babies. Healthy choices of nutritious foods are provided, and allergenic foods are discussed.
Find tips for introducing spoon feeding and cup drinking to your child with cleft lip and/or cleft palate and making the experience enjoyable.
Find answers to frequently asked questions teenagers have about breastfeeding, including how long it's recommended, supplementing with formula, and troubleshooting.
Find out which feeding supplies you will need to buy for your child, where you can buy them and what kind of funding is available for buying feeding tube supplies.
Learn about the possible causes of colic and ways to treat it. Colic, though upsetting for you and your baby, often goes away by three or four months of age.
A guide on how to feed your child through a nasogastric tube, when to flush the tube and how to clean the equipment.
Learn how to give feeds and medication with ENFit supplies and how to properly clean and care for the supplies.
Learn about the important role of nutrition. A heart condition can make it hard for kids to get the nutrition they need and may result in failure to thrive.
GERD causes the backwards movement of food and acid from the stomach into the esophagus. Learn how you can help your child manage GERD.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a rare but serious disease that affects the bowels of premature or newborn infants. Learn more about the symptoms, causes and treatment of the condition.
Find out when to start feeding a baby solid food, how to tell when they are ready to start eating solids, and tips for introducing solids.
Learn how to treat common problems with your child's nasogastric (NG) tube feeding.
A low-profile feeding tube requires a feeding extension set to administer feeds and medications through the tube. Learn how to connect and remove the extension from your child’s feeding tube.
Sometimes infants do not gain weight at the rate they are supposed to. Find out ways to increase your baby's caloric intake in a healthy manner.
Learn what to do if your child's feeding tube becomes blocked.
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