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Clayton and Anne Nans <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:39:03 -0400
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I personally feel that 4 - 6 months is a great recommendation for starting
solids and a great change from what my mother was taught almost 30 years
ago, and certainly what my MIL was taught 45 years ago.  When my triplets
came home from the hospital at 35 weeks gestation, my MIL was trying to
encourage me to give my "high needs" boy, Riley, mashed bananas.  I was
horrified, of course, but she said she gave her 5 children solids soon after
birth.  My mother was taught to start my brother and me on solids at 6
weeks!  My son started solids at 4 months adjusted age.  My other son and
daughter started at 5 months adjusted age.  There are many people who bottle
feed their newborn infants and stuff their bottles with rice cereal and even
baby food at night to get them to sleep longer.  IMO, this is the kind of
thing we need to teach parents not to do, not worry if they're starting to
feed their 5 month old cereal fortified with expressed mother's milk.  I
think Jack Newman is right on on this one, as usual! :-D

Anne Nans, RN, IBCLC
Woodbridge, VA

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