Diane wrote:
>>>
I'm increasingly anxious about those babies who nurse fine and grow fine
and start solids fine, whose mothers begin tapering off nursing so that at
9 or 10 months they're nursing 2 or 3 times a day, to be virtually weaned
by a year.<<

This schedule is very common in the Netherlands, for breastfed and formulafed
children. I was wondering the same.

Spoke to a women lately. She started fruit around 10 weeks "bc baby cannot
poop." And she nursed her 5 times a day. This is very common here. "how many
times she's fed now? 4 times? 5 times?". At 4 mo the baby got 3 times a day
breastfeeding, 1 time fruit and 1 time vegetables. At 6 mo this baby dropped
in chart, so "pottage" was added. Around 9mo she stopped breastfeeding, "baby
eats everything we eat". I saw her again when baby was ± 1yo: rashes in her
face.

This schedule is here very common and the nurses of the baby health check
centres encourage it. Fortunately they do not recommend early introduction of
solids anymore, but still if their adviced is followed, the baby is weaned
and on adult food around 9 mo.

>>Could this be part of where our extraordinary rates of osteoporosis come
from?<<<

We have very high rates of osteoporosis either
--
Annelies Bon
mother of Dirk 6yo, Tom 4yo, Pieter 1yo
the Netherlands