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How to Get the Most Out of the Greenlight Booklets

These booklets have easy to understand information and ideas that can help you keep your child healthy, strong, and at a healthy weight.

Common Questions About The Greenlight Booklets

1 What information will I find in the Greenlight booklets?

The Greenlight booklets will give you ideas about how you can help your baby grow strong and be at a healthy weight.

You can do a lot to make sure your baby is healthy.

Learning about these important ideas can help you know :

  • What food to give.
  • How much food to give.
  • How to keep your baby active and strong.
  • Please share the Greenlight booklets with all the important people in your baby’s life.

2 Why do the Greenlight booklets start at 2 months of age?

You may have heard that being overweight or obese (very overweight) can cause serious health problems — for grown-ups and for children.

The good news is that you can stop this from happening by taking action in your child’s first year of life.

Your baby is still very young but this is the perfect time to start thinking of ways your baby and your whole family can eat healthy and be active.

3 What will we learn about in the Greenlight booklets?

The information in each booklet changes as your baby grows.

Here are the kinds of things you can learn about in the Greenlight booklets :

  • Breastfeeding
  • Formula feeding
  • Feeding your baby the right amount
  • Healthy foods and drinks for your baby and your whole family
  • Making changes as your baby grows :

– When to start baby food
– How to help your baby switch from a bottle to a cup
– How to help your baby sleep through the night

  • Being active with your baby and your whole family

4 Why is it so hard to know the best way to keep our baby healthy?

New parents get lots of advice about how to take care of their baby.

Sometimes it is hard to know the right thing to do :

  • It may be harder when you live with the baby’s grandparents. Their ideas about caring for the baby may be different than your ideas and the advice of the baby’s doctor.
  • It can also be harder when you are raising a baby in a new country where ideas about taking care of a baby are different.

You should try to do what is best for the baby. The Greenlight booklets can help!

5 What should I do if I have questions?

It is important to talk to your baby’s doctor or other medical staff if you have any questions. If the baby’s doctor tells you to do something different than what is written in the Greenlight booklets, it is best to listen to your doctor.

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