This clip discusses responsive feeding—caregivers responding to babies' hunger and fullness cues—and the goal of raising children as intuitive eaters to prevent disordered relationships with food. Speakers emphasize letting babies lead feeding, avoiding pressure/rewards, and helping children learn to trust their bodies from the start.
Responsive feeding is one of the pillars we talk about in our book. We have a whole chapter all centered around that and our pediatrician wrote that chapter. So it really is responding to baby's cues for hunger and fullness. And as the caregiver or the parent, you are if they are showing you they want more, you're feeding them more. If they're showing you they are done, you are stopping the meal or you're changing or changing what you're offering or how you're presenting it. It really is like letting baby communicate with you and tell you what they want and when they want more or when they want to be done. It's all about letting baby take the lead and being able to understand their own hunger and fullness cues and being able to share that with you.
Really want to raise kids that are intuitive eaters. We want to prevent disordered relationships with foods. We want kids to eat based on their hunger cues and not from parental pressure or rewarding or bribing. So helping them do that right from the start and letting them learn to trust their body is really something we highly prioritize.
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