? Dr. Bill Sears on How to Raise a Smarter Baby - #4
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Dr. Bill has been a frequent guest on television talk shows, including 20/20, Good Morning America and CNN, and was also featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in 2012. He is the medical and parenting consultant for BabyTalk and Parenting magazines and the pediatrician on the website Parenting.com.
Kelly: Dr. Sears, welcome!
Dr. Sears: Thank you, Kelly, itâs an honor to be with you.
Kelly Thomas: Yes, So, you have written so many books â I think almost every mom in America is familiar with at least one of them â is there any particular stage of development that you think is more important or more impactful than the others?
Dr. Sears: Well I think itâs really birth to three years, Kelly and here are the reasons, a babyâs brain grows the fastest after birth for the first two to three years, it doubles in size in the first two years. So, you have the greatest chance of laying down a permanent foundation. Those wires into your babyâs brain think of your babyâs brain like the greatest garden ever grown and there are a hundred billion plants in that little garden. So, what do you do to help a garden grow? You feed it and you fertilize it and you keep the weed and the pests out. The same thing in growing a baby brain, you give them smart food, you give them lots of touches, you give them lots of love, you respond to their needs in an appropriate way and thatâs how you grow your baby brain.
Kelly: That brings me to another question, Since itâs such an impactful time, do you think a childâs IQ is malleable? Are there things that you can eat or things that you can do to help raise your childâs IQ or cognitive development?
Dr. Sears: Yes they are Kelly. You used a wonderful term there called malleable. Now the scientific term for that is called neuroplasticity. Now thatâs just a big word that means if the brain could talk, it would say âHey man, I will change and adapt to whatever you need me toâ. The brain is so changeable. All the wiring is so changeable so the term malleable, youâre totally correct. Now, the best way you can do that is smart foods. Letâs start with motherâs milk â wow! â smartest food ever made and I make it very simple for moms, I say alright âfeed your child a smart fat dietâ and as soon as I mentioned the term fat, they go âoh really? Iâve heard all these bad things about fat wrong! A babyâs brain is 60% fat so, the way I get parents to remember this, is tell them, you are growing a little fat head. A motherâs milk is 40 to 50 percent fat and doctor Mother Nature does not make mistakes. So, the first most important group of foods to grow a smarter little babyâs brain and childâs brain is fats. Number one mamaâs milk. Then at six months, I have this, letâs pretend Kelly that youâre coming into my office and you want to talk about beginning solid foods to grow a little fat head and I say ok âfirst food avocados, wow! Whatâs different about avocados, they are the fattiest fruit on Earthâ. So avocados at 6 months, and this will surprise your audience, at 7 months we begin salmon. I have a big sign in my office âsalmon at 7 monthsâ and parents look at me, really? Yeah, you get a piece of wild salmon and you mush it up and you place it on your finger and you place it on babyâs tongue. Now here are the three magic words âshaping young tastesââ, shaping young tastesâ, beginning at 6 months. So, you shape their taste for fruits and veggies and good healthy fats like avocados and salmon and hereâs another thing we do at 6 months I call it my âsprinkles testâ because the most common question I get from parents is my child wonât eat vegetables.