Solid Starts
Previa Alliance Podcast
Previa Alliance Team
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ok time to start solids - Doctor
How, what, when…help! - All parents
As a parent, do you ever feel lost when it comes to feeding your baby solid foods? Do you worry about allergens, picky eaters, and the chaos of mealtime routines? You're not alone. This episode features a conversation with Kary Rappaport Executive director from Solid Starts, a pediatric occupational therapist and lactation consultant whose work has been shaped by her own experience with postpartum anxiety. Kary’s approach to infant feeding offers a refreshing perspective and practical guidance, which we unpack over the course of our chat. From how to start with solids, allergens, and problem solving techniques to tricky mealtime behavior, this is has it all!
Solid Starts Food database First Foods for Babies Starting Solids - Solid Starts
Check out Solid Starts for helpful guides and courses.
More about Kary Rappaport - Executive Director of Solid Starts PRO
A mom of two, Kary specializes in family mealtime dynamics and eating issues across the spectrum, from breast and bottle feeding challenges and picky eating, to dysphagia, tube feeding, and complex food refusal. Kary has extensive, wide-ranging work experience from outpatient therapy, to pediatric acute care in a high acuity NICU, to in-home settings and Well Child visits, all supporting families and children with eating and swallowing. Kary has worked with thousands of infants and children as they learn to eat, and she has taught parents and medical professionals on this topic for nearly two decades.
Solid Starts is the leading institution on how to introduce real food to babies. We are a multi-disciplinary team made up of doctors, feeding therapists, dietitians, and researchers focused on providing evidence-based information on introducing solid food to babies and navigating picky eating in toddlerhood. Central to our mission is the free First Foods Database®, an award-winning app and database of foods from around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys welcome back to the reliancereebe Lions podcast. This is Sarah again and we are bringing you guys today another person to be in your village. |
| 0:20.0 | So if you are hitting that, you know, four months to six months or your mom to be or heck you're like me you have toddlers who some days decide to eat and some days decide not to. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the podcast special for you. |
| 0:33.0 | We have from Solid Start, Carrie, she's the executive director. |
| 0:36.0 | She comes to you as also an occupational therapist, |
| 0:39.0 | lactation consultant, and mom and hello, she loves maternal mental health so she's our girl so buckle |
| 0:46.7 | up this is a great conversation today don't worry about hen and paper writing everything |
| 0:51.6 | down we will take great show notes and we'll link everything, but Carrie welcome. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you so much for having me, Sarah. We are so excited. So let's start off, tell us just a little about yourself and why did you choose this career? |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, I'm a pediatric occupational therapist by training. I've been doing this for it's getting close to 20 years now. I |
| 1:15.9 | specialize in feeding eating and swallowing, especially with the little list ones. I'm |
| 1:19.2 | also an international board certified lactation consultant. I got into this line of work primarily because I was a severe picky eater as a kid and really that population resonated with me. I also grew up with a family that did family meals pretty regularly and that was a very |
| 1:38.0 | important and sort of anchoring part of my childhood even though we had busy lives, there was always moments |
| 1:44.1 | to come to the table and be together. |
| 1:45.5 | And so both of those things together |
| 1:47.4 | sort of guided my career choices |
| 1:49.5 | in terms of specializing under the umbrella |
| 1:52.0 | of pediatric OT in the area of feeding, eating, and swallowing. |
| 1:55.0 | I love that. |
| 1:57.0 | Anne, tell us about you as mom. |
| 1:59.4 | How is this, how does mom carry coming into play with this? |
| 2:02.8 | Yeah, I'm a mom of two kids. |
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