Webinar: Promoting Responsive Bottle Feeding
Research shows that experiences and exposures during infancy can have lasting effects on later health outcomes. This is why supporting healthy early feeding interactions, like responsive feeding, is so important during this time.
In this webinar — hosted by LA Best Babies Network on February 13, 2023, for staff in our network of home visiting organizations and Welcome Baby hospitals — Dr. Alison Ventura:
- Defines responsive feeding and discusses the importance of it
- Shares research on the associations between bottle feeding and overfeeding leading to rapid weight gain
- Highlights the difference between breastfeeding versus bottle feeding
- Outlines ways home visitors can promote responsive bottle feeding
About the presenter:
Dr. Alison Ventura is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Public Health at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also the Director of the Cal Poly Healthy Kids Lab and Associate Director of Research Training and Fellowship for the Cal Poly Center for Health Research. Dr. Ventura holds a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Pennsylvania State University, two MS degrees from the Pennsylvania State University — one in Nutritional Sciences and the other in Human Development and Family Studies — and a BS in Psychology from UC Davis with an emphasis in Biology and a minor in Community Nutrition. Dr. Ventura’s research focuses on infant feeding interactions and how these interactions shape dietary preferences, eating behaviors, and growth trajectories during infancy and early childhood. Much of Dr. Ventura’s recent work focuses on the promotion of responsive feeding during breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and the introduction to complementary foods and beverages.
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