Maureen

A wonderful glimpse into the past - thank you!  I will look up the 
refs in your book, a copy of which you generously sent me when I was 
studying for the Exam in Zimbabwe in 1989, and which I have treasured 
ever since!

I remember exclusively breastfeeding my eldest son for _almost_ 6 
months in 1977, and being aware, thanks to a little LLL exposure, 
that I should have waited a couple of weeks longer before offering 
other foods.  So the info has been "out there" for a very long time.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC (impatiently looking forward to your new book!)


At 14:21 13/10/2014, Maureen wrote:

>A history lesson. I realise that many Lactnetters have not read 
>Breastfeeding Matters (first published in 1985 and fourth revised 
>edition 1998) or this discussion would be very different. As for 
>when it was first agreed that babies be given nothing but breastmilk 
>for the first 6 months,  that advice goes back to the early 20th 
>century, when educational diet was to be started after 6 months and 
>before 9 months, and then between 9 and 12 months a baby moved on to 
>real foods so as to be weaned by 12 months (or later than that if 12 
>months was in summer.).....


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