Filled With Love: A Book About How Babies Eat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798218041410)

What exactly do babies eat?
Do they only drink from bottles?
Why do they seem hungry all the time?
Who can help feed a baby?
Through rhymes and colorful illustrations, Filled With Love addresses the many curiosities children have about infant feeding and shows them all the unique ways it can look.

Filled With Love: A Book About How Babies Eat is educational and engaging for readers of all ages. Its inclusivity and diversity celebrates and represents families everywhere:

• Breastfeeding families
• Formula-feeding families
• Pumping / bottle-feeding families
• Families of color / Black, Hispanic, indigenous families
• Babies with special needs (premies, tongue / lip tie, Downs syndrome)
• Various family dynamics (LGBT, multiracial, multigenerational)
• Families with twins or multiples

Main text is geared toward younger children (ages 2-8) but a list of resources for further infant feeding support and a 4-page appendix allows older readers to explore more in-depth explanations of various concepts, including:

• Supply and demand principle of human lactation
• Composition of breast milk and infant formula
• Milk sharing (tandem nursing, cross nursing, milk donation)
• Early assistance / medical feeding devices (including NG tube, G-tube, SNS)
• Hunger cues / How often babies eat (including other nursing mammals)
• The role of an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant)
• Weaning / introducing solids

A beautiful representation of the many different ways babies are fed. I have never seen anything quite like this book... I cannot wait to share it with everyone I know!"
-Rachel Baggett, RN, BSN IBCLC