Revised February 2007

These materials are available in Portable Document Format.

• Lesson 1
• Lesson 2
• Lesson 3
• Lesson 4
• Lesson 5
• Lesson 6
• Lesson 7
• Lesson 8
• Lesson 9
• Lesson 10
• Lesson 11
• Lesson 12
• Handouts and Visual Aids

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Related pages

• N710, Teen Parent Newsletters package
• N714, Teen Parents: Take a Taste for You and Your Baby Recipe Cards
• N715, Teen Parents: Curriculum for Pregnant Teens
• N863, What Should I Eat?
• N900, Make Room for Snacks -- They're Good for You!
• N941, MyPyramid for Adults Handout
• N943, MyPyramid: Steps to a Healthier You for Adults Poster
• N944, MyPyramid for Pregnancy handout
• N948, MyPyramid for Pregnancy poster

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Teen Parents: Nutrition Curriculum for Pregnant and Parenting Teens

Editor's note
The following abstract describes a publication that is intended for print distribution or as a downloadable PDF. Please see links to the PDF file and ordering information on this page.

Karen Elliott
Nutrition Specialist

Mary Ball
Extension Associate

Janath Swofford
Nutrition Program Assistant

Sara Cooper
Nutrition Program Assistant

Barbara Willenberg
Associate State Nutrition Specialist
FNEP Special Projects Coordinator

Ellen Schuster
Associate State Nutrition Specialist
FNEP Curriculum and Staff Development Coordinator

Teen Parents is a nutrition curriculum that teaches pregnant and parenting teens how to make the healthiest choices for their bodies and their babies. The curriculum supports the National Health Education Standards and the State of Missouri Education Standards. Teen Parents focuses on how to be healthy while pregnant and deliver a healthy baby.

Complete documents available in PDFs

• Lesson 1
  My Community Resources
• Lesson 2
  What Should I Eat?
• Lesson 3
  Have a Healthy Baby: Weight Gain During Pregnancy
• Lesson 4
  Special Nutrient Needs
• Lesson 5
  If It's Not One Thing, It's Another
• Lesson 6
  Take Care of Your Baby's Health
• Lesson 7
  Fast Food and Healthy Snacks
• Lesson 8
  Decisions for Feeding Your Baby
• Lesson 9
  Introducing Solid Food
• Lesson 10
  Feeding Older Babies and Toddlers
• Lesson 11
  Get the Most for Your Money
• Lesson 12
  Keeping Food Safe to Eat
• Handouts and Visual Aids

Keywords

• Nutritional information
• Balanced meals

Pages

• The printed curriculum fits into a three-ring binder and includes: tabs for easy organization of each lesson, 38 handouts designed to be copied.

N715, revised February 2007