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#sponsored by @healthyeatingresearch 🎉 New Year, new healthy drink🚰recommendations for kids! If you’re a parent and you want to simplify your life, save money, and have a well-hydrated child, I’m partnering with HER to share a solution that will help! Experts from the AAP, AND, AAPD, and AHA have come together to release new evidence-based recommendations for what kids and teens should drink as part of a healthy diet. 🌟 Here are the top 3 things to know from the report: 1️⃣ Plain drinking water💧 is the best option to keep kids healthy and hydrated. It’s also often the most accessible and affordable. 2️⃣ Plain pasteurized milk 🥛 is another healthy option because it provides important nutrients that growing kids need, like calcium, potassium, and vitamin D (which kids don’t typically get enough of). 3️⃣ 100% fruit 🍎 + vegetable 🥕 juice can be part of a healthy diet but in limited amounts (100% juice means everything in the container comes from a fruit or veg with no added sugars or artificial ingredients). Top tips: If your child doesn’t like 💦 water, try offering a fun new water bottle, decorating it with stickers, setting water consumption goals using rubber bands, or adding frozen berries 🍓 or fresh fruit 🍊 for flavor. 🙋🏻‍♀️ My 2 cents as a pediatric dietitian and mom? These are “gold-standard” hydration recommendations based on the latest research, not a demand for parental perfection! Please don’t worry if offering your kids only🚰 &🥛 doesn’t currently feel doable (it certainly doesn’t for me, given my girls’ obsession with Starbucks 😒). Just know it’s a good goal to keep in mind and work toward together over time. 🌟 If you’re curious about where/whether sports drinks, soda, caffeinated beverages, sweet tea, and more fit into these recommendations: 👉️ Learn more at healthyeatingresearch.org 👉️ Follow Healthy Eating Research for credible childhood nutrition information all year Xo 🥰 Malina #HealthyDrinksHealthyKids #whatifeedmykid #healthyhydration #HealthyMomHealthyKids

It's that time of year 🤒 and germs are circling. If your child has a sore throat, here's an all-natural sore throat soother that I love making for my kids as a pediatric dietitian and mom! Follow @healthy.mom.healthy.kids for more feeding tips, and share this with a friend who needs it 🤧 The honey 🍯 in these ice pops relieves sore throat pain—more and more research points to the effectiveness of honey as a sore throat and cough soother and as a remedy against upper respiratory tract infections (like this 2021 systematic review and meta-analysis, PMID: 32817011) The coldness also helps! Plus these pops provide immune support from the vitamin C in the mango 🥭 and lemon 🍋 juice, and hydration from the coconut 🥥water 💦 Important elements to help keep your cutie comfortable and on the mend, all in one ice pop. Happy healing! Blend the following, pour into ice pop molds, freeze, and serve: 🍯 2 tablespoons honey (I love using raw) 🍋 2 tablespoons lemon juice 🥭 1 cup frozen mango chunks 🥥 10 ounces plain coconut water *Note: not for littles under the age of 12 months, due to the presence of honey 🍯 xo Malina 🥰 #SoreThroats #GermSeason #WhatIFeedMyKid #PediatricRDN #NaturalFoods #PediatricDietitian #RDN #RecipeShare #DietitianMom #IcePops #RawHoney #HoneyLover #HealthyMomHealthyKids

Like and share 👇 if baby gagging freaks you out! If yes, you’re in good company. It can help to remember that baby gagging ⁠is a normal, noisy, necessary part of learning how to eat. It’s actually a natural, built-in safety mechanism that allows babies to bring forward food they are not yet ready to swallow. So in many ways, it’s a GOOD thing! (I’m Malina, btw - pediatric dietitian & single mom of 3 specializing in nutrition for moms, babies & kids 💕 - and I’m so grateful to the amazing mom of this 11-month-old fab fellow for allowing me permission to share her helpful video!) If you’re finding it a major challenge to stay calm & positive & not intervene during a baby gag, the best thing you can do is to educate yourself about: ✅ Which foods, food shapes & textures increase choking risk⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠ ✅ How to size & texture foods safely for baby ✅ What the differences are between gagging & choking ✅ Infant CPR & first aid, so that you are prepared in the unlikely event of a choking episode ✨ 👉 Choking episodes are rare. But it’s important for anyone feeding an infant to be trained in infant CPR and first aid, just in case. My fave online course for this is made by a nationally certified Red Cross and Lifesaving Society First Aid Instructor. It’s an EXCELLENT, 2-hour, self-paced online course from @safebeginnings. Head to where the links are kept for the link plus my 20% discount code. ✨ 👉 Need guidance on starting solids? Head to where the links are kept to download my free BLW starter guide. It includes a short list of budget-friendly essentials, lots of top expert feeding tips, and a 5-day meal plan. #blwinspo #feedingmybaby #selffeedingbaby #feedingbaby #whatmykideats #babyledweaningmeals #growingbaby #raisinghealthykids #babyledweaninginspiration #whatmybabyeats #healthymomhealthykids

#ad @American Council on Exercise ✨ Big changes start with small steps! ✨When I had foot surgery this past November, my usual fitness routine came to a halt. Recovery gave me the chance to reflect and challenge myself in new ways—like finally diving into weightlifting! 💪 It’s something I’d always known was beneficial but never truly incorporated into my life. So I’m partnering up with the American Council on Exercise to share more about the journey and the role the ACE Fitness education platform played. Their “Weightlifting for Women” course made it easy to learn at home at my own pace. Not only did it help me rebuild strength post-surgery, but it also gave me the confidence to create sustainable fitness habits—and even inspired me to share what I’ve learned with other moms in my private nutrition practice. If you’re a mom juggling all the things but dreaming of a flexible, health-focused career (or just want to deepen your own wellness journey), ACE’s online courses are perfect. They’re self-paced, accessible 24/7, and designed to fit into the busiest of mom lives. 💻🌟 Right now, ACE Fitness is offering a FREE course for a limited time. This is your chance to explore fitness education risk-free. 💻🌟 Let’s inspire our kids by prioritizing our health and showing them how strong moms can be 💪💕 🔗 Head to acefitness.org/moms for details! #MomLife #StrongMoms #WeightliftingForWomen #ACEFitness #HealthyLifestyle #HealthyMomHealthyKids #AceFitness #ACEFitMoms #GetCertified #MomsWhoLift

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