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Meaningful Minutes - WIC Skills in 10
Each Meaningful Minutes training is designed to increase CPA knowledge for assessing nutrition risk and to build counseling skills for a specific nutrition topic. New trainings will be added regularly and will be announced in the Weekly Update. Join us for 10 minutes of learning and skill building!
Introductory videos
Meaningful Minutes: WIC Skills in 10 Intro Video
Meaningful Minutes: Dodge County Story of Low Hemoglobin
Training videos and worksheets
Meaningful Minutes - Introduction of Potentially Allergenic Foods
Resources
- Introduction of Allergenic Foods - Staff Worksheet (PDF)
- National WIC Association Practical Food Allergy Prevention: Applying Currently Available Guidelines to WIC Families
- American Academy of Pediatrics: When to Introduce Egg, Peanut Butter & Other Common Food Allergens to a Baby
- Solid Starts: Food Allergies and Babies: Introducing Allergens
- Fleischer, D.M., et al. (2019) Guidelines for Early Food Introduction and Patterns of Food Allergy Pediatrics, 143(4)
- Greenhawt. M., et al. (2025) Encouraging Trends in Peanut Allergy Prevention: Real-World Impact of Prevention Guidelines. Pediatrics.
Meaningful Minutes - Developmental Readiness of Infants for Solid Foods
Resources
- Developmental Readiness of Infants for Solid Foods Staff Worksheet (PDF)
- WIC Risk Code 411
- Live Well WIC - Understanding Your Older Baby
- HealthyChildren.org - Starting Solid Foods, Tips for Introducing Solid Foods, Heavy Metals in Baby Food
- Solid Starts - Allergies and Babies Resource
- Healthy Eating Research - Feeding Guidelines Brief (PDF)
- Gerber Medical - Patient Resources
- Minnesota WIC - Introducing Solid Foods (PDF)
Meaningful Minutes - Part 2: Typical Infant Growth Patterns
Resources
- Part 2: Typical Infant Growth Patterns Worksheet(PDF)
- WIC Risk Code 135: Slowed/Faltering Growth Pattern (Justification)
- Michigan DHHS - Feeding your baby: Birth to 6 months (PDF)
- Paced Bottle Feeding (PDF)
Meaningful Minutes - Assessment of Infant Growth and Intake
Resources
- Assessment of Infant Growth and Intake Staff Worksheet (PDF)
- Guidance for WIC Nutrition/Breastfeeding Cards
- The First 3 Months Nutrition Ed Card (PDF)
- The First Months Nutrition Ed Card (PDF)
- Paced Bottle Feeding Nutrition Ed Card (PDF)
- MN WIC Baby Behavior Education (YouTube)
- WIC Baby Behavior Brochure (PDF)
- Hungry of Full Know Baby's Cues wichealth to go (PDF)
- Tips for Bottle Feeding wichealth to go (PDF)
- Feeding Your Newborn Lesson in wichealth.org
Meaningful Minutes - Preventing Anemia in Infants
Resources:
- Anemia in Infants Staff Worksheet (PDF)
- WIC 201 Low Hematocrit/Low Hemoglobin
- American Academy of Pediatrics: Diagnosis and Prevention of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Infants and Young Children (0-3 years of age)
- Infant Cereal: Topic of the Month (PDF)
- Anemia Resources
- WIC Infant Food Recipes
- WIC 411 Inappropriate Nutrition Practices for Infants, Justification for risk code
- WIC 411 Inappropriate Nutrition Practices for Infants, Justification for risk code 411K
Meaningful Minutes - Preventing Anemia in Women
Resources:
- Preventing Anemia in Women Staff Worksheet (PDF)
- WIC 201 Low Hematocrit/Low Hemoglobin
- WIC 427 Inappropriate Nutrition Practices for Women
- Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy (PDF)
- Prenatal Vitamins (PDF)
- Eating More Iron (PDF)
- Anemia Resources
- Google Drive 2025 COWIC Prenatal Postpartum Module (PDF)
Meaningful Minutes - Preventing Anemia in Children
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