Preventing Severe Picky Eating from Your Baby's First Bites with Dr. Katja Rowell, MD

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Episode Description

How does typical picky eating differ from severe picky eating and are both or either preventable?In this episode family doctor turned child feeding specialist Katja Rowell, MD walks us through steps to helping babies develop a foundational love of food from their first bites, along with tips on differentiating between typical and extreme picky eating, and what to do and where to go if you do think your baby’s feeding behavior is not typical.

About the Guest

• Dr. Katja Rowell is a family physician turned feeding specialist 
• Sheshares practical, compassionate advice on how to help your baby build a positive relationship with food from their very first bites.
• Dr. Rowell is the author of Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating

Links from this Episode

• Visit Dr. Rowell’s website The Feeding Doctor at https://www.thefeedingdoctor.com/

• Read Dr. Rowell’s books Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating and Helping Your Child When Mealtimes are Hard on Amazon (these are affiliate links)

• Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program 

• Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Other episodes related to this topic:

• Episode 90 - Picky-Eater Siblings + BLW Babies feat. Molly Ferraro
• EPisode 306 - Picky Eating Prevention Tips with Stephanie Cohen, MA, CCC-SLP, CLC
• Episode 462 - Is this Picky Eating or ARFID? with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD

Resources & Research

• Self-Determination Theory as a Theoretical Framework for a Responsive Approach to Child Feeding in Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2020, Pages 646-651
• Fu, XiaoXi et al. “Food fussiness and early feeding characteristics of infants following Baby-Led Weaning and traditional spoon-feeding in New Zealand: An internet survey.” Appetite vol. 130 (2018): 110-116. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.07.033
• Mascola, Anthony J et al. “Picky eating during childhood: a longitudinal study to age 11 years.” Eating behaviors vol. 11,4 (2010): 253-7. doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2010.05.006