The Calm Baby Cookbook

Calm Your Baby Easily By Changing Your Diet

• Bond More Easily With Your Baby
• Have More Time For Yourself
• Relieve Tension In Your Home

Introducing
The Calm Baby Cookbook

What a breastfeeding mother eats can actually influence her baby’s disposition! A baby who fusses, cries or displays other colicky symptoms is most likely reacting quite negatively to something that his or her mother is eating. If a breastfeeding mother can eliminate certain foods on a short-term basis, her baby will become calmer and more relaxed.

The Calm Baby Cookbook outlines the foods that commonly causes breastfeeding babies discomfort and it provides 85 great tasting recipes to get started.

The Calm Baby Cookbook Features:

• How Calmer Babies Bond More Easily With Their Families
• The Reason For the Baby’s Discomfort
• The Foods That Most Commonly Cause A Baby Discomfort
• Tips to Convert Your Favorite Recipes Into Breastfeeding-Friendly Ones
• What to Do When You Are Ready To Introduce These Foods Back Into Your Diet
• What To Do If Your Baby Is Still Fussy
• Tips to Help Make Breastfeeding Easier
• Simple Ways to Calm a Fussy Baby
• 85 Recipes To Get Started

A fussy baby can cause great anxiety for a new mother. She knows that her baby is upset and uncomfortable, but is unable to calm her baby. If her baby continues to cry on a long-term basis, she begins to rationalize that she is the problem. Her self-esteem decreases and she begins to doubt her ability to parent. What many new mothers do not realize is that her fussy baby may be reacting quite negatively to something that she is eating. By simply changing her diet on a short-term basis, a new mother can calm her fussy baby dramatically.

Small particles of everything that a breastfeeding mother eats and drinks ends up in her breastmilk. Because the lining of a newborn’s gut is quite porous for the first four months of life, a baby can have difficulties digesting certain foods. There are approximately 10 different foods that consistently cause a baby discomfort and if the breastfeeding mother can eliminate them from her diet, her baby usually stops fussing and crying within a week.

Learning to parent a newborn can be difficult for some mothers. Parenting skills are fragile at first and new mothers can become overwhelmed with caring for a newborn. If the breastfeeding process becomes easier, the mother gains confidence because she alone is providing nourishment for her baby and her baby is happy. If the breastfeeding process is difficult, she can be more inclined to discontinue breastfeeding. Almost all studies on breastfeeding show that there is great benefit for both mother and baby the longer that they breastfeed. The goal of the Calm Baby Cookbook is to empower new mothers to breastfeed their babies with confidence and to enhance the family bonding and attachment process.

The bonding and attachment process between a fussy baby and his/her parents becomes challenging, as it is difficult to enjoy each other’s company when the baby is constantly crying. Calm babies bond more easily with their families and family life with a first baby becomes much easier to manage. There is simply less frustration and angst for both parents when the baby is calm. One mother who followed the Calm Baby diet remarked, “I feel that Ava is finally able to see me. Her crying has decreased and we are able to play together for the first time.”

The Calm Baby Cookbook includes information on:

Both Getting Ready for Baby and the Calm Baby Cookbook were created entirely by Canadians and printed in Calgary, Alberta.

Dr. Melanie Beingessner is a chiropractor, a breastfeeding counsellor, a certified infant massage instructor and the mother of three fabulous children.  She is the author of The Calm Baby Cookbook and Getting Ready for Baby: a practical five-step guide to help you prepare for labour, birth and for life as a family, and the co-founder of Becoming Parents – a prenatal program that teaches about the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual transformation of pregnancy and birth and how to facilitate an easier transition of becoming a family.  Dr. Beingessner is currently co-writing a book based on the Becoming Parents prenatal program. 

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