Puericulture consists in a suitable tool to the full monitoring of children's growth and development This article reports the experience of nurses acting in childcare in a family health unit in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The appointments with the nurses as well as the home visit were strategies taken in order to provide educative and care actions to promote infant nutritional health. The present work attempted to articulate the lived experiences and the bibliography about this theme. It is concluded that the usage of these care methodologies subsidized by an educative proposal of problematization, which considers the child inside his/her family and its culture, allows the promotion of a special assistance towards the needs and possibilities of each child in order to promote infant nutrition stimulating healthy nutritional habits.