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Subject:	Re: What is a clinical reason to introduce solids prior to 6
From:	Debbi Heffern <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:33:19 -0600
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There was a study reported on in the first edition of Kathleen Auerbach's Breastfeeding & Human Lactation that told about women severely undernourished in a very cold part of Africa doing hard field labor whose babies did fine for the first 4 months and then dropped off. Is that the one you mean?

Debbi Heffern, who had originally borrowed the book from her co-Leader in the 1980s. Jeanette! Do you still have that first edition?
St. Louis

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Hi,
I have been waiting to see if anyone with more expertise on this subject would add this thought to this thread, but haven't seen it, so I'll chime in. I know that I read "somewhere" that the reason 4 - 6 months was first proposed for beginning solids is because in developing worlds, the mother's diet may be so deficient, both during breastfeeding as well as during the pregnancy, that those babies may need to start solids earlier in order to get all their nutrients, than the babies of mother's in more affluent, well fed countries. That's not to say that "Watch the baby, not the calendar" isn't valid, but I was under the impression that was the main "clinical" reason for suggesting starting solids before 6 months. Of course, I can't remember where I first heard or read this, so have no references, but maybe someone else remembers it, too.
Kristeen Rogers, RN, IBCLC

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