The One-Stop Nutrition Resource for Starting Your Baby on Solids. Your baby's food journey and future health begins with his first bite. From tasting new flavors and textures to learning how to eat and self-feed, your baby is moving through one of the most important milestones of his life: Learning about food and how to eat. The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids is your step-by-step blueprint for starting baby food, advancing flavors and textures, supporting self-feeding, and getting your baby to the family table. You'll get: Month-by-month physical transitions all babies go through which enhance their eating abilities; Expectations for development and how they cue starting solids; Information about the important nutrients baby needs for body, brain and bone growth; How babies learn to eat; Keys to building healthy food and flavor preferences; How to help babies tune into their appetite and regulate it well; How to encourage self-feeding; The common mistakes and how to avoid them; Different feeding methods and which is right for your baby; Month-by-month starting solids guide; Sample menus for each month; How to prevent choking, food allergies and overeating; and all your baby feeding questions answered With The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids you'll get the latest science, practical guidance, and implementation tips from pediatric nutrition expert and mom, Jill Castle, MS, RDN. Learn about the most important nutrition and feeding concepts and eating goals in the first year, so you can be clear and confident in feeding your baby. The Smart Mom's Guide to Starting Solids will help you navigate hot topics like preventing food allergies, over- and under-eating, spoon-feeding, baby-led weaning, and preventing feeding mistakes so you raise a child who enjoys eating and begins developing a healthy relationship with food. Start your baby on a healthy eating path! Cover the nutrition bases, tackle baby food, and sail through the first year of eating with confidence and know-how.