Last time I checked the European Blueprint still held on to 6 months exclusive breastfeeding.
There has been done research at the Maastricht University (Netherlands, Europe) that concluded that earlier introduction of cowsmilk might be beneficial for the reduction of allergy, but the researchers themselves concluded that this outcome did not mean that recommendations for only breastfeeding during the first 6 months of life should be altered. <http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/122/1/e115>
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC, MOM in soutern Netherlands
--- On Wed, 5/13/09, Esther Grunis, IBCLC <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Esther Grunis, IBCLC <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LACTNET] New recommendations from our Health Ministry
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 5:18 AM
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?
And the newscaster made it sound like this was a great thing for mothers and
babies!!
It sounds to me as if the artificial milk companies have infiltrated the
Health Ministry just as they did the AAP.
Do I have to give these recommendations when asked by moms? Or can I say
that every few years these recommendations change, and that it is best to
let the baby decide.
Esther Grunis, IBCLC who is so tired of swimming upstream.
Lis Maternity Hospital
Tel Aviv, Israel
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