08.06.04

Proper Use of Breasts!

Posted in health at 4:27 pm by James

I just saw this in the Houston Chronicle online.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization and most other experts recommend that mothers give their babies breast milk only — no formula, juice or solid food — until they are 6 months old.

The recommendations add that mothers should, if possible, breast-feed babies until they are 2 years old but at the very least for a full year, adding juice, formula and solid food to suit the baby’s appetite.

Here is the Houston Chronicle article. Here is the link to the World Health Organization‘s page on infant feeding, and here is the link to their report The Optimal Duration of Exclusive Breastfeeding. In the synopsis, they say:

…provided, the available evidence demonstrates no apparent risks in recommending, as public health policy, exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life in both developing and developed country settings.

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