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Keeping your child healthy and ensuring that he gets good nutrition are two of the most important jobs of parenting. Below you will find resources on a range of health issues that will help you nurture your child’s overall growth and development. Please note that ZERO TO THREE does not provide medical advice. If you have questions about your child’s health and nutrition, we encourage you to discuss them with your health care provider.
Helping Families Understand and Manage Pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux
In her article for the January 2009 issue of the Zero to Three Journal, author Elizabeth Pulsifer-Anderson describes Gastroesophageal reflux, a common medical problem affecting about 5% of otherwise healthy children. Early childhood professionals can help families in three important ways: first, to understand the disease thoroughly so parents can track the symptoms and work with their medical team; second, to learn homecare techniques that are an essential part of the treatment; and third, how to support families when the daily demands of reflux pose a high emotional and physical burden. Download the article.
Healthy Eating Strategies for Young Children
Suggests 8 ways that parents can help their baby or toddler develop healthy eating habits in the first three years. To access this resource, please log-in or register now.
It’s Too Spicy! Too Mushy! It Smells! What Are Those Green Things? Why Are the Peas Touching the Chicken??
(Or, How to Handle Your "Picky Eater")
Picky eating is quite common in the early years and usually reaches its peak during toddlerhood. How do you avoid turning mealtimes into power struggles? How do you know if your child is eating enough? Will your child ever eat anything other than white foods? Never fear, we have the resource for you. Click here to read more.
The Picky Eating Poll
Take a minute to tell us about your child. Your input helps us understand the challenges parents are facing in raising (and feeding!) their little ones.
On Feeding
Healthy From the Start: How Feeding Nurtures Your Young Child's Body, Heart, and Mind
Offers parents information on how feeding skills unfold over the first three years. Explores how feeding is much more than about food—it is a chance to bond with children and nurture their social-emotional skills. Provides strategies for dealing with “picky eaters” as well. To access this resource, please log-in or register now.
Early Arrival: Finding the Magic of Everyday Moments With Your Baby in the NICU
Explores a variety of ways that parents of preterm babies can bond with and care for their children both while the are in the hospital and after they transition home. To access this resource, please log-in or register now.
Coping When Your Baby Has Reflux or GERD: You Are Not Alone
Provides coping strategies, information, and support to parents whose babies are experiencing gastroesophageal reflux. [913 KB  ]
The Feeding Relationship
Article from the Zero to Three Journal exploring the profound influence parents have on nurturing healthy eating habits in their children, beginning from birth. Offers child feeding suggestions that support bonding with children, as well as feeding suggestions that encourage children to be independent and regulate their own nutritional intake.
How to Feed Babies and Toddlers in the 21st Century
Article from the Zero to Three Journal outlining 7 key strategies for nurturing healthy eating habits in babies and toddlers.
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What Can We Do to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Offers information on childhood obesity and explains how a foundation for healthy eating is established in the first three years. Also outlines strategies parents may use to support healthy weight gain in their children aged birth to three and beyond.
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On Prematurity
New Perspectives on Premature Infants and Their Parents
Article from the Zero to Three Journal which compares and contrasts myths and realties about preemies’ needs, abilities, and long-term development.
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Family Perspectives on Prematurity
Article from the Zero to Three Journal featuring stories told by parents, in their own words, of their own premature babies’ births.
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I'll Have My Usual
My three year old only want macaroni-and-cheese and bagels and cream cheese at mealtimes. What is going on?
Picky Already?
I have a 9-month-old daughter who used to eat anything, but now when I try to feed her vegetables she clamps her lips shut, cries and pushes the spoon away.
Biting while Breastfeeding
I’ve been breastfeeding my five-month-old since he was born but he just got his second tooth and I’ve just gotten my second bite. Any ideas for what works in this situation?
What's Best for My Baby and Me?
By Claire Lerner and Amy Laura Dombro (2006)
Brief parent guide outlines a three-step process for decision-making around sticky child-rearing issues.
Bringing Up Baby: Three Steps to Making Good Decisions in Your Child's First Years
By Claire Lerner and Amy Laura Dombro 2005
Book shows parents an easy, three-step approach for making child-rearing decisions in the first three years and beyond. Making decisions about your child’s sleep—co-sleeping, “crying it out”, for example—is discussed as well.
Learning & Growing Together: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Development
Claire Lerner and Amy Laura Dombro (2000)
Book explores several important parenting issues, including early childhood development milestones and what parents can do to support healthy development.
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