title: Anticipatory guidance. Adding solids to the infant's diet.
abstract: Infant feeding practices have not always conformed to professional recommendations. Anticipatory guidance based on a careful assessment of the baby's mother, use of Gestalt principles, and innovative teaching techniques is more likely to lead to appropriate infant feeding practices than fragmented and inconsistent attempts.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D005863:Gestalt Theory; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology