Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota For Employees|Our Locations|Contact Us|Site Map|Search

Delivering Next Generation Care

For Families and Patients

Resources and Educational Materials

Patient/Family Education Materials by Category

Nutrition

Blenderizing Guidelines:  Tips for making smooth, easy-to-swallow foods for your child. 

Bone Health: Preventing Osteoporosis:  How to get enough calcium to make strong bones. 

Breast Milk: Fortified (Using Enfacare Lipil Formula)Spanish Using EnfaCare Lipil to enrich breast milk for a premature baby. See also: Breast Pumping When Your Baby is in the Hospital

Breast Milk: Fortified (using NeoSure Advance Formula)Spanish Using NeoSure Advance to enrich breast milk for a premature baby. See also: Breast Pumping When Your Baby is in the Hospital

Breast Milk: Fortified (using Standard Formula)Spanish Using standard formula to enrich breast milk. See also: Breast Pumping When Your Baby is in the Hospital

Breast Pumping When Your Baby is in the HospitalHmong, Spanish Using a kit to pump breast milk when you cannot breastfeed your baby. 

Breastfeeding an infant with cleft lip:  Positions and solutions for feeding babies with divided lip. See also: Cleft Lip, Cleft Palate, Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding an Infant with Down Syndrome:  Positions and solutions for feeding babies with Down syndrome. See also: Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding an Infant with Neurological Problems:  Positions and solutions for feeding babies with neurological problems. See also: Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Your Hospitalized baby:  How to breastfeed more effectively and comfortably. See also: Breastfeeding: Weaning, Breast Pumping When Your Baby is in the Hospital

Breastfeeding: WeaningSpanish How to gradually replace breastmilk with other nutrients for your baby. See also: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding: Weaning After Infant Loss

Breastfeeding: Weaning After Infant Loss:  Caring for your breasts after the loss of a newborn. 

Breastfeeding: Weaning from pumping:  How to gradually stop pumping after feedings See also: Breastfeeding, Breast Pumping When Your Baby is in the Hospital, Breastfeeding an infant with cleft lip, Breastfeeding an Infant with Down Syndrome, Breastfeeding an Infant with Neurological Problems, Breastfeeding: Weaning After Infant Loss

Cleft Palate Repair: Feeding Your Child:  How and what to feed your child after surgery for cleft lip/palate. See also: Blenderizing Guidelines

Expanding Food Tastes:   

Feeding Children Ages 1 to 3:  Guidelines for a healthy, well-balanced diet. See also: Weight Gain Tips

Formula Adjustment (Enfacare)Spanish How to prepare EnfaCare Lipil formula for a baby who needs more nutrients per ounce. 

Formula Adjustment (Neocate)Spanish How to prepare Neocate formula for a baby who needs more nutrients per ounce. 

Formula Adjustment (Neosure)Spanish How to prepare NeoSure Advance formula for a baby who needs more nutrients per ounce. 

Formula Adjustment (Nutramigen or Pregestimil)Spanish How to prepare Nutramigen or Pregestimil formula for a baby who needs more nutrients per ounce. 

Formula Adjustment (Portagen):   

Formula Adjustment (Standard)Spanish How to prepare standard formula for a baby who needs more nutrients per ounce. 

Gluten-Free / Casein-Free Diet for Autism Spectrum Disorder:  Provides guidelines on how to start this diet, lists of foods that do and don't contain gluten and casein, and supplements that might be needed. 

Preparing your baby for feeding:  Explains the dangers of secondhand smoke for children, and ways to keep it away from them. See also: Asthma, Bronchiolitis, Asthma trigger control, Asthma Action Plan

Thin Liquids Feeding Plan:   

Weight Gain TipsSpanish Ideas for increasing calories to help a child gain weight.