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Every Milestone has Meaning

Milestones are important when it comes to feeding, as your child's needs change with every developmental stage. Select the Milestone Symbol™ below that reflects your child’s current stage of development to receive customized feeding guidelines, menus and nutrition advice tailored to your child's individual readiness cues and motor skills.

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Pregnancy

  • 1st Trimester
  • 2nd Trimester
  • 3rd Trimester
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Every Milestone has Meaning

Milestones are important when it comes to feeding, as your child's needs change with every developmental stage. Select the Milestone Symbol™ below that reflects your child’s current stage of development to receive customized feeding guidelines, menus and nutrition advice tailored to your child's individual readiness cues and motor skills.

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Birth

  • Makes crawling-type motions with her legs
  • Enjoys bold colors as vision continues to develop
  • Smiles, frowns and grimaces
  • Reaches for you when she wants attention
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Every Milestone has Meaning

Milestones are important when it comes to feeding, as your child's needs change with every developmental stage. Select the Milestone Symbol™ below that reflects your child’s current stage of development to receive customized feeding guidelines, menus and nutrition advice tailored to your child's individual readiness cues and motor skills.

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Crawler

  • Crawls with stomach off the floor
  • May pull self up to stand
  • Begins to self-feed with fingers
  • Begins to use jaw to mash food

Supported Sitter

  • Sits with help or support
  • On tummy, pushes up on arms with straight elbows
  • Moves pureed food forward and backward in mouth with tongue to swallow

Sitter

  • Sits independently
  • Picks up and holds small objects in hands
  • Reaches for food or spoon when hungry
  • Uses upper lip to help clear food off of spoon
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Every Milestone has Meaning

Milestones are important when it comes to feeding, as your child's needs change with every developmental stage. Select the Milestone Symbol™ below that reflects your child’s current stage of development to receive customized feeding guidelines, menus and nutrition advice tailored to your child's individual readiness cues and motor skills.

Select a Milestone

Crawler

  • Crawls with stomach off the floor
  • May pull self up to stand
  • Begins to self-feed with fingers
  • Begins to use jaw to mash food

Toddler

  • Stands alone and begins to walk alone
  • Feeds self easily with fingers
  • Begins to use fork and spoon
  • Bites through a variety of textures
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Every Milestone has Meaning

Milestones are important when it comes to feeding, as your child's needs change with every developmental stage. Select the Milestone Symbol™ below that reflects your child’s current stage of development to receive customized feeding guidelines, menus and nutrition advice tailored to your child's individual readiness cues and motor skills.

Select a Milestone

Preschooler

  • Runs well without falling
  • Sits in a booster seat or child seat at family meals
  • Chews more skillfully and efficiently
  • Mastering use of spoon and fork
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About Nestlé Nutrition

Gerber partners with Nestlé Nutrition

About Nestlé Nutrition

The makers of GERBER®, the world’s most trusted name in baby food, have partnered with the NESTLÉ® GOOD START® infant formula experts to help you raise happy, healthy infants and toddlers—for now, and for many generations to come.

Together with Nestlé Nutrition, we’ve created the START HEALTHY, STAY HEALTHY™ Resource Center to provide GERBER and NESTLÉ GOOD START consumers with advice and nutrition and feeding guidance, as well as great offers on products.

Why nutrition is so important

Did you know that a baby who receives the right nutrition in his first year is much more likely to be healthy throughout the rest of his life? That’s why Gerber is committed to developing food products that are trusted, safe, and nutritious. And Nestlé Nutrition is aiding to achieve this important goal.

Nestlé Nutrition is already the source of nutrition information and the science-based innovation behind GOOD START formulas. Now Gerber can build on its own expertise by drawing on the incredible worldwide network of Nestlé scientists, researchers, and dietitians who bring the very latest in nutrition science to you and your child. That’s good news for babies everywhere.

The science of great food

At the heart of every GERBER product lies a network of knowledge developed internally since 1928. And now we have the opportunity to further enhance our leadership position by working with the Nestlé Research Center (NRC). The NRC is the world’s largest private food and nutrition research institute, comprising more than 300 PhD scientists within the Nestlé Research & Development network. That includes eight Product Technology Centers (PTCs) and eight R&D centers.

Commitment to the WHO code

In addition to our commitment to Start Healthy, Stay Healthy programs, Gerber and Nestlé Nutrition have a long-standing tradition of adhering to the World Health Organization (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.

Science-based nutrition products

Nestlé Nutrition started with Henri Nestlé, a pharmacist who created a special infant formula in 1867. Based in Vevey, Switzerland—on the shores of beautiful blue Lake Geneva—Nestlé Nutrition delivers science-based nutrition products and services, all created to promote health and wellness. With a presence in more than 100 countries and employing more than 20,000 people, Nestlé Nutrition has four areas of expertise:

  1. Infant Nutrition. Creates innovative products that include formula, baby, and toddler foods. The goal is to help infants and young children grow and develop into healthy adults.
  2. Health Care Nutrition. Creates nutrition products for the elderly as well as for people recovering from or managing certain medical conditions.
  3. Performance Nutrition. Built around the needs of athletes and highly active people, these products promote peak mental and physical performance.
  4. Weight Management. Personalized programs help people lose weight, keep it off, and live healthier lives.

Want to learn more? Go to NestleNutrition.com

Have Questions?

The START HEALTHY, STAY HEALTHY™ Resource Center specialists are available to answer your questions 24/7.

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