This baby can continue to get human milk through her g-tube for years.
Mom can add solid food when developmentally appropriate, pureed and
added to the g-tube in small amounts, increasing as the child grows. The
main nutrients that are needed by around 9-12 months to sustain rapid
growth are more iron and zinc than are in human milk. That said, there
have been several cases of children with allergies or malabsorption
syndromes they could only tolerate human milk, one girl only had human
milk until well into her teens and thrived. Last I heard, she was in
university.
Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC NYC
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