Bad parenting books.

[hotlama]

I checked out a few baby cook books from the library.

Super Baby Foods by Annabel Karmel is horrible. On page 52 it suggests egg salad and peanut butter sandwiches for babies from 7-9 months old. On page 50 it actually states that reducing the amount of milk given will help your baby accept solids. On page 71 it shows a grid that says that solids should be given as meals and breastmilk/formula should be the mid morning, afternoon and nighttime snack.

I checked out 3 other but haven't read them yet. I'll let you know if I like them later.

Does anyone else have a book that I shouldn't bother reading?

[hotlama]

LOL. I just noticed that two of the other books are by the same author. We'll see how it goes.

[camille97]

Ugh. Is it from the 1960s?

[hotlama]

Ugh. Is it from the 1960s?


2001

[nicurn]

Ugh again. I never had much luck with baby food books. I ended up just going from single purees to table food and breastfeeding on demand. On the plus side, I have a two-year old who eats Feta cheese, asparagus and swordfish trio without batting an eye.

[MiMi_of_4]

Just to show how vast the changes in feeding babies have been in the last 30 years, here's the baby food schedule from 1976, when my daughter was born:

one month ~ rice cereal first, then add barley and oatmeal (adding cereal to bottles to "make the baby sleep longer" was popular ~ there were even little feeders with plungers to ensure this). EEEK!! I gave my daughter cereal with a spoon, but NEVER put cereal in her bottle.

...of course, I didn't ever prop a bottle, either, even though that was also perfectly acceptable, and I sure as hell didn't subscribe to CIO, and that was encouraged, as well.

two months ~ vegetables

three months ~ fruit

four months ~ chicken, then add pork and beef

six months ~ eggs & switch from breastmilk or formula to 2% milk

As soon as teeth appeared, dry cereal (like Cheerios) and zwieback could be substituted for baby food.

My daughter was eating table food exclusively by the time she was 7 months old, including peanut butter. The only restriction was this ~ no honey until after a year.


By 1982, when my son was born, the only thing that had changed was the introduction of vegetables and fruit had been interchanged ~ in 1976, the idea was that if you gave fruit before vegetables, the baby wouldn't eat something that wasn't sweetened, but by 1982, that idea had gone by the wayside.

I wish there were do-overs in life, because now that I know all the reasons why one shouldn't follow the above, I shudder when I think I subscribed to those horrendous dietary guidelines ::sniff::

Slightly off-topic (and I know I've already been there in this post), but I so wish co-sleeping had been an acceptable practice when my kids were babies, because I would have jumped on that.

I admit I blindly followed a lot of the recommendations of the "experts;" however, I never listened to anyone who told me I was spoiling my babies by holding them all the time or rocking them to sleep instead of putting them in a bed and letting them cry until they went to sleep.

They both slept in a bassinet right next to my side of the bed until they were a couple of months old, so I knew the minute they woke up. (I was lucky, because by that time, both of my kids were sleeping through the night),

Also, both of them came home from the hospital in carseats (not pumpkin seats) ~ the safest ones they made back then ~ and then, I actually bought toddler car seats when they were old enough to come out of infant car seats (almost unheard of in those days).

Sorry if this was a hijack, but I thought some of you might be interested in how much things have changed over the years ~ for the better, thank goodness!

[Wolverine]

I did use some of the recipes from Super Baby Food. Her dietary and parenting advice is crap.

[Babyblue]

no mimi, it was interesting. and most of it sounds a good bit on how my mom was taught to feed her kids.

suprizingly my grandmother was a good go to for baby info, but that was far back enough that women listened to exactly how their mothers raised babies-with commen sense, not gerber or nestle.

[Ilovemonkeys]

My greatgrandmother had all of her kids in the 40's and she always told me not to feed babies peanut butter- b/c it was a choking hazard. My grandmother told me the same thing, I think the age for PB was 2 or 3.

And I was told veggies before fruits with my oldest in 96.

I've never done the solids thing with my kids and I really don't get it. Allof my children's primary source of nutrition for the first 12 months was breastmilk or formula.
Never did cereal at all and never really did baby food, other than bites of table food or little bits to keep them busy while I cooked.

They are all healthy and will eat just about anything.

I just don't understand the need or push to have a 7 month old on a "solids schedule"

[LivingLoveandLogic]

I'm not sure you have that title right. Super Baby Food is a wonderful book written by Ruth Yaron: http://www.amazon.com/Super-Baby-Food-Ruth-Yaron/dp/0965260313/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216818810&sr=8-1

Check it out! She still might be a bit off the mark as to when to start what (that should be individually tailored to your baby imo), but her guide to making your own baby food is awesome. :)

[jaelwoman]

I had to look it up, it's called Superfoods for Babies and Toddlers.

I used Super Baby Foods when my children were little and I didn't remember that stuff at all. LivingLoveandLogic posted about the book I used!

[kohlby]

Ah, I was going to say that Super Baby Foods was great - though I did know to ignore some things about when to start certain foods, like she still went by the 4 month guideline and some other foods were earlier than they should have been. I used it for the making of babyfood info. I loved the reference section of what season to buy foods and how long they would keep in the freezer.

[hotlama]

I'm not sure you have that title right. Super Baby Food is a wonderful book written by Ruth Yaron: http://www.amazon.com/Super-Baby-Food-Ruth-Yaron/dp/0965260313/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216818810&sr=8-1

Check it out! She still might be a bit off the mark as to when to start what (that should be individually tailored to your baby imo), but her guide to making your own baby food is awesome. :)


Thanks for the correction. It's called Super Foods

http://books.google.com/books?id=A3FlAAAACAAJ&dq=Annabel+Karmel&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result

[VegasLactivist]

Nothing sucks more than:
1. Babywise and all it's counterparts by Gary Ezzo
2. To Train Up A Child by Michael and Debbie Pearl
3. Raising Godly Tomatoes by that nutjob Elizabeth that used to post here.