I like to tell my breastfeeding class participants that breastfeeding is a wonderful foundation for good health and nutrition.  We discuss all the numerous short and long term benefits of breastfeeding and class participants add their own stories about things they have seen or read about.  I am very much into holistic nutrition personally, so I always end the class talking about adding solid foods and then weaning.  I refer them to books about good nutrition for older infants and children like Super Baby Foods by Ruth Yaron.  If the mother breastfeeds, but then starts their children on Hi C, McDonald's, and Doritos, they may very well see their children's health deteriorate.  I enjoyed reading Kathy Detwyller's (sp?) Dancing Skelatons.  She most enjoyed doing assessments on the healthy, breastfeeding infants, but was always saddened to see the malnurished children.  Good nutrition starts with breastfeeding, but certainly shouldn't end there.  When parents start cereal, they should be counseled about making home made organic foods instead of the refined rice cereal and jarred foods that most people in the US associated with infant nutrition.  Just my 2 cents based on my personal experience with very healthy breastfeeding triplets and then very sickly weaned toddlers eating the standard American diet.  We got back on track with whole, organic foods.

Anne Nans, RN/IBCLC
Fredericksburg, VA

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