Infant Nutrition

General
Special Health Care Needs
Failure to Thrive
Prematurity
Food Allergies
Feeding Relationship

General Resources

Bright Futures
http://www.brightfutures.org

The Bright Futures website includes links to the Bright Futures and Bright Futures in Practice series. Tools for practitioners, including publications, distance education, training tools, and materials for consumers, are also available.

Child of Mine, Feeding with Love and Good Sense

Child of Mine, Feeding with Love and Good Sense, by Ellyn Satter. (2000). Available in most libraries and bookstores ($16.95). This book reviews the division of responsibility between parents and children – the parent’s responsibility is to offer a variety of safe foods in a nurturing environment, and the child’s responsibility is to decide how much and what to eat. The materials cover infancy through age 5 years.

Special Health Care Needs

Nutrition Interventions for CSHCN (WA DOH)
Available for download and ordering information at http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/mch/CSHCN_publications.htm. Includes chapters about failure to thrive, prematurity and low birthweight, food allergies, and feeding skills.

Children with Special Health Care Needs: Nutrition Care Handbook (PNPG/DDPD) Ordering information at: http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/shop_1292_ENU_HTML.htm

MCHB Knowledge Path
http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_CSHCN.html

Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) program and Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) program http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/mch/cshcnhome2.htm

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/WIC/

Medical assistance/Medicaid
http://fortress.wa.gov/dshs/maa/download/Billing%20Instructions%20Web%20Pages/Enteral_Nutrition_BI.htm

Early Intervention
http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/iteip/

Children with Special Health Care Needs Nutrition Network
http://depts.washington.edu/cshcnnut/cshcn_nut_net.html

Washington State Community Feeding Teams
http://depts.washington.edu/cshcnnut/feeding_teams_list.html

MCH Nutrition Training Programs - Funded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, these training programs provide short- and long-term training opportunities. General information at: http://nutrition.mchtraining.net/Training Programs at http://nutrition.mchtraining.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=3&id=23&Itemid=25

Nutrition for Children with Special Health Care Needs - Self-study (six 1-hour modules) and Group-study (four 1-hour modules) are available online: http://depts.washington.edu/pwdlearn

Failure to Thrive

Failure to Thrive and Pediatric Undernutrition: A transdisciplinary approach
Failure to Thrive and Pediatric Undernutrition: A transdisciplinary approach. (1999). Kessler DB and Dawson P. Brookes Publishing. This book explores failure-to-thrive and pediatric undernutrition from a multidisclipinary perspective. http://www.brookespublishing.com

Prematurity

Critical Elements of Care (CEC) – Low Birth Weight Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate
Care guidelines and parent materials developed by the UW-CHDD and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Center. http://www.medicalhome.org/diagnoses/lbw_cg_gc.cfm

Gaining and Growing Website
Information for community health professionals who work with premature infants. http://staff.washington.edu/growing

Article: Intrauterine growth retardation and small for gestational age infants
Zerzan J. Intrauterine growth retardation and small for gestational age infants: Implications for growth, outcome, and nutrition management. Nutrition Focus. 2004; 19(4). Information about ordering back issues: http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/ucedd/ctu_5/nutritionnews_5.html

Article: Nutrition issues for the premature infant after hospital discharge
Zerzan J. Nutrition issues for the premature infant after hospital discharge. Nutrition Focus. 2005; 20(4). Information about ordering back issues: http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/ucedd/ctu_5/nutritionnews_5.html

Food Allergies

American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
http://www.aaaai.org

The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network
http://www.foodallergy.org

International Food Information Council
http://ific.org

Feeding Relationship

NCAST Feeding Scale
This scale is used with infants birth to 1 year of age. (See http://www.ncast.org for information)

Observational scale for mother infant interaction
Chatoor I, Getson P, Menvielle E, Brasseau C, O'Donnell R, Rivera Y, Mrazek DA. A feeding scale for research and clinical practice to assess mother-infant interactions in the first three years of life. Infant Mental Health Journal 1997;18(1):76-91.

Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense
Satter E. Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense. Bull Publishing. 2000.