Six months of breastfeeding alone could harm babies, scientists now say
Fresh review of evidence contradicts WHO guidance leaving campaigners outraged and mothers baffled
Guardian
Jan 14, 2011

To the outrage of breastfeeding campaigners and probably the utter confusion of most women with small babies, scientists today advocate rewriting the rulebook to drop the current guidance that says mothers should breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of their child's life.

It was 2001 when the World Health Organisation announced that exclusive breastfeeding for six months was best for babies. In 2003 the then Labour minister Hazel Blears adopted the recommendation for the UK.

But today, in the British Medical Journal, doctors from several leading child health institutes say the evidence for the WHO guidance was never there – and that failing to start weaning babies on to solids before six months could be harmful....

link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/14/six-months-breastfeeding-babies-scientists

or try

http://goo.gl/fb/DkoCp

Note the article does say:  "The paper acknowledges that three of the four authors "have performed consultancy work and/or received research funding from companies manufacturing infant formulas and baby foods within the past three years"."

Starting to show up in Twitter #breastfeeding hashtag

-- Jodine
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