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Date: | Wed, 30 Sep 1998 07:37:35 EDT |
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Hello Everybody:
About the Gerber influenced article about offering solids at 3 months. How
in the world could the ethics committee where that "research" was done have
approved such activity when the AAP now recommends exclusive human milk or
formula feeding for 6 months??
I have heard that the recommendation was supposed to be "exclusive human or
formula milk for 6 months" but the 4 month boundary got in there as a result
of cultural and industrial pressures. So for years is was "for 4-6 months."
Only recently has the AAP extended the recommendation to 6 months.
And Alfredo Pisicane found that none of the babies were anemic who were
exclusively breastfed for 7 months.
What gives? Warmly, Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, ICCE (finally
introducing herself after a wonderful year on LACTNET. I live near
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is on the northeastern coast of the USA)
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