Kathy D notes,

<< In the west, people often begin with commercial cereals, followed by
 commerical fruit mush and vegetable mush.  They often start right off with
 offering solids several times a day, consistently and in ever increasing
 amounts from the first time they offer.  Often within just a few weeks, the
 child is eating a whole bunch of solid food and breastfeeding less and less
 and less, so that the end of breastfeeding is hastened by the addition of
 solids. >>

Well, of course.  And 4 to 6 months actually MEANS the day the baby turns
four months.  And mothers are told by their pediatricians to give the solid
foods FIRST and then breastfeed afterwards, as though breastfeeding is now of
no account because the baby is on Gerber Rice Cereal (or Pizza Hut Pizza
Crust -- whatever).  So milk supply diminishes rapidly because of the early,
unnecessary intro of solids -- before the tongue thrust reflex is gone, and
because mom dutifully does what the HCP tells her to do.

Jan -- where the sun is still shining, in Wheaton.

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