>IN last night's news, there was an announcement that our Health Ministry has
>changed the recommendations about exclusive breastfeeding.  Now mothers are
>recommended to breastfeed for only 4 months, at which point they are advised
>to start giving tastes of all sorts of solids, such as eggs, grains,
>chicken, fish, and beef.  This is supposedly to avoid allergies, and to
>strengthen the baby's immune system.  They say that this is based on the
>European protocols for infant feeding. 
>
>Have any other countries changed their recommendations?


I can confirm that the UK guidance is exclusive breastfeeding (or if 
not breastfeeding, formula feeding) until six months, and there is 
not even a whisper that I have heard that it is likely to change. 
This has been the case since 2003.

Every so often, a 'dissident' view appears in the nursing and medical 
journals, but there is no 'movement' to change the guidance at all, 
as far as I can tell.

Esther, your news is very bad indeed and I wish you luck in challeging it.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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