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WORK TITLE: Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World
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Female.
EDUCATION:American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, M.D.
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Pediatrician and writer. Practicing pediatrician, beginning c. 1998, board certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics; Kid Care Pediatrics, Fort Worth, TX, pediatrician. Previously clinical rotations at London Hospital Medical College, England; pediatrics residency at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Scott and White Memorial Hospital, Temple, TX, also served as chief resident; and Texas A&M University Health Science Center, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, served two years.
AWARDS:American Academy of Pediatrics (fellow).
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Contributor to blogs and websites, including New Parent magazine, Bloggy Moms, and Multicultural Kid Blogs.
SIDELIGHTS
A practicing pediatrician for more than two decades, Lisa Lewis was chosen as a Mom-Approved Pediatrician by the Dallas Fort Worth Child magazine in 2016 and 2017. Lewis is also a writer who writes about child health and parenting across cultures. She learned about parenting in other cultures primarily through her travels around the world and her interest in medical and parenting philosophers outside of the United States. In her first book, Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World, Lewis passes on what she has learned about parenting via various cultures.
Lewis largely focuses on how parents can incorporate multicultural practices in the rearing of their own children. She points out that these practices can vary widely. For example, in the Philipines breastfeeding is common after the age of one. Korean babies eat various spices and flavors that help them develop healthy eating practices via a diverse palate. In Italy, babies are more involved in the community as parents take them everywhere and pass them around from person to person as they shop, eat, or attend church. Lewis points out that these caretaking practices have been proven to be successful in helping to raise a well-rounded and healthy baby. Overall, Lewis provides tips and secrets from more than forty countries. For example, Lewis writes that in Holland babies generally sleep two hours more a night than babies in the United States while Maylasian babies are given warm baths while oils are ladled over them.
Specific topics addressed by Lewis include breast and bottle feeding and advice on preventing sudden death syndrome. She also focuses on more mundane tasks such as choosing the proper kind of diaper. Throughout the book Lewis provides recipes from around the world for babies, including Lebanese hummus. She also notes how governments in different countries approach baby care, such as Finland, which provides expectant mothers with a baby box made out of cardboard and filled with baby supplies. The box also folds out into a bed for the baby if needed.
Feed the Baby Hummus is divided into four sections: “Behavior and Development,” “Decisions to Make,” “Diet and Nutrition,” and “Building Immunity and Body Care.” It also includes an appendix with a shopping list and the various international baby food recipes. “The glance at global customs presents a fascinating perspective on parenting worldwide, wrote Julia M. Reffner in Xpress Reviews. A Publishers Weekly contributor called Feed the Baby Hummus “a treasure trove of childcare tips, and a clever cross-cultural journey.”
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MBR Bookwatch, March, 2018, Mary Cowper, review of Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World..
Publishers Weekly, February 5, 2018, review of Feed the Baby Hummus, p. 58.
Xpress Reviews, February 23, 2018, Julia M. Reffner, review of Feed the Baby Hummus.
ONLINE
Foreword Reviews Online, https://www.forewordreviews.com/ (August 7, 2018), Melissa Wuske, review of Feed the Baby Hummus.
Lisa Lewis website, http://www.lisalewismd.com (August 7, 2018).
Dr. Lewis has been a practicing pediatrician for over 20 years. She writes about child health and parenting across cultures. Dr. Lewis has traveled the world extensively and has a keen interest in the medical and parenting philosophies of other countries. She has been chosen as a Mom-Approved Pediatrician by Dallas Fort Worth Child Magazine in 2016 and 2017. Dr. Lewis has contributed to many blogs and websites, recently including New Parent Magazine, Bloggy Moms and Multicultural Kid Blogs. Dr. Lewis recently completed her first book for publication with Familius: Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World.
Dr. Lewis attended medical school at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. During her third and fourth years of medical studies, she performed her clinical rotations at London Hospital Medical College in England where she received clinical honors. She completed her pediatrics residency at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, where she served as Chief Resident. For 2 years after her residency, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Texas A&M University Health Science Center. Dr. Lewis is board certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
A practicing pediatrician for over twenty years, Dr. Lisa Lewis currently serves the Fort Worth, Texas community at Kid Care Pediatrics. She has traveled the world extensively experiencing medical and parenting philosophies in various countries. In 2016 and 2017, Fort Worth Child magazine gave her a Mom-Approved Pediatrician designation based on patient votes.
In addition to her pediatric practice, Dr. Lewis has contributed to various blogs and websites including Bloggy Moms and the website for New Parent Magazine. She is an active member of and contributor to Multicultural Kid Blogs, where readers from all over the world convene to share multicultural parenting information.
Dr. Lewis is board-certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. An active member of the Writers' League of Texas, her writing focuses on helping families enjoy cultured, healthy futures.
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Feed the Baby Hummus
Mary Cowper
MBR Bookwatch.
(Mar. 2018):
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Feed the Baby Hummus
Lisa Lewis, MD
Familius
1254 Commerce Way, Sanger, CA 93657
www.familius.com
9781945547799, $16.99, PB, 256pp, www.amazon.com
Synopsis: Parenting practices vary widely between countries and cultures. For example, in countries such as
the Philippines, breastfeeding after age one year is common, and parents can make their own decision about
what is right for their family. In Korea, babies eat a variety of spices and flavors, helping them develop a
diverse palate and healthy eating habits. And in Italy, parents prevent separation anxiety by taking their
babies to markets, restaurants, and churches and passing them around from person to person.
"Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World" by Lisa Lewis
(who is a practicing pediatrician for twenty years and who currently serves the Fort Worth community at
Kid Care Pediatrics) teaches parents to confidently incorporate various multicultural practices into their
own caretaking plan.
Pediatrician Lisa Lewis offers the wisdom and proven caretaking practices of the cultures of the world,
drawn from her own training, research, travel, and clinical experience. Although certain standards of care
must exist for babies to thrive and be happy, "Feed the Baby Hummus" offers a variety of cross-cultural
parenting information and baby care guidance from a trusted source.
Critique: Exceptionally well researched, written, organized and presented, "Feed the Baby Hummus:
Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World" is an impressively informative, practical, and
thoroughly 'parent friendly' instructional guide that will be especially appreciated by new parents and offers
specific feeding tips from more than forty countries from around the world.
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Feed the Baby Hummus: PediatricianBacked
Secrets from Cultures Around the
World
Publishers Weekly.
265.6 (Feb. 5, 2018): p58.
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Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World
Lisa Lewis. Familius, $16.99 trade paper
(302p) ISBN 978-1-945547-79-9
This reassuring childcare volume offers a wealth of basic information, as well as useful tips and "secrets"
from 40 countries. Though pediatrician Lewis includes chapters on breast and bottle feeding, a recipe for
Lebanese hummus, and an assortment of other recipes from a handful of countries, feeding represents just
part of her focus; she also shares invaluable advice on topics ranging from sudden infant death syndrome to
selecting the right kind of diaper. The well-traveled pediatrician peppers her book generously with tidbits
from other cultures: in Holland, for instance, where regular routines are prized, six-month-olds generally
sleep two hours more than their American counterparts; babies in Malaysia enjoy a warm-water ladle bath
with soothing oil, and babies in Nigeria are not allowed to "cry it out" and are consoled immediately. Lewis
lavishes particular praise on the "baby box," a cardboard box packed with baby supplies that the Finnish
government, since the 1930s, gives to expectant mothers (the box, once unpacked, doubles as a baby's first
bed). Throughout, Lewis's tone is invariably evenhanded: when it comes to deciding when to stop
breastfeeding (a fraught issue in various cultures), for instance, Lewis notes that no two babies, or mothers,
are alike. Her book is a treasure trove of childcare tips, and a clever cross-cultural journey. (Mar.)
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Lewis, Lisa. Feed the Baby Hummus:
Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from
Cultures Around the World
Julia M. Reffner
Xpress Reviews.
(Feb. 23, 2018):
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Lewis, Lisa. Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World.
Familius. Mar. 2018. 302p. ISBN 9781945547799. pap. $16.99. CHILD REARING
Experienced pediatrician Lewis believes valuable insights about childhood needs can be gained by studying
cultures worldwide. For example, Balinese babies' feet don't touch the ground for the first three months of
their lives. In Switzerland, infants sleep in sturdy hammocks made of breathable fabrics that position babies
on their backs, and Jamaican parents soothe feverish babies with rosewater baths. Divided into four main
sections--"Behavior and Development," "Decisions To Make (e.g., naming, circumcision, and child care),"
"Diet and Nutrition (allergies, breastfeeding, etc.)," and "Building Immunity and Body Care"--this work
will comfort readers to know that their child is not alone (35 percent of Britons still sleep with a teddy bear
or other stuffed animal according to a 2010 Travelodge study) or provide fresh ideas (try pumpkin and
papaya as your child's first foods, as is common in rural Uganda). Each chapter contains pediatric advice
and tips for implementing the wisdom of various cultures. The appendix includes a shopping list and
international baby food recipes.
Verdict Since Lewis takes sides on some issues, such as cosleeping and the oft-used cry-it-out method, her
guidance may not appeal to all readers; however, the glance at global customs presents a fascinating
perspective on parenting worldwide.--Julia M. Reffner, North Chesterfield, VA
Source Citation (MLA 8th
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Reffner, Julia M. "Lewis, Lisa. Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around
the World." Xpress Reviews, 23 Feb. 2018. General OneFile,
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Accessed 14 July 2018.
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FEED THE BABY HUMMUS
PEDIATRICIAN-BACKED SECRETS FROM CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD
Lisa Lewis
Familius (Mar 1, 2018)
Softcover $18.99 (256pp)
978-1-945547-79-9
Feed the Baby Hummus presents a wide array of good choices that parents can make during their baby’s first year.
With decades of experience as a pediatrician, Lewis knows just how challenging it can feel to make good choices in the early months of a baby’s life. Her comprehensive guide offers practical advice and cross-cultural wisdom. Cultural tidbits emerge from Lewis’s research and experiences and serve to bolster, add depth, and provide contrast to the book’s more thorough, fairly conventional American advice about how to care for a baby.
The book is divided into sections covering stressful developmental issues like sleep and soothing, practical choices like naming and childcare, every kind of feeding question from breastfeeding to weaning, and caring for the baby’s body and immune system for long-term health.
Cultural lessons include the open, nonjudgmental attitude of Icelandic mothers about breastfeeding; Japanese parents’ hundredth-day-of-life celebration, which introduces the baby to diverse foods; Indian parents’ use of coconut oil for cradle cap; and Norwegian mothers’ use of wool breast pads, among other examples. The book takes a positive view of culture, and every idea is treated with respect, highlighted for its positive impact.
Ideas from more communal, less individualistic cultures will prove the most insightful for modern Americans but may also be the most difficult to put into practice, especially for those who live far away from the baby’s grandparents and extended family.
Every part of the book affirms the parents’ rights to make their own choices, offering refreshing confidence in parental judgment in a time when so many discussions of infant parenting are fueled by extremes.
Feed the Baby Hummus is a guide to nurturing happy, healthy babies that goes beyond conventions.
Reviewed by Melissa Wuske
March/April 2018