A baby's gut is not ready to digest
anything other than breast milk or formula before that and can cause intestinal issues when they are older.
First and foremost Most babies under 6 months has a digestive system that is not fully developed; therefore
anything other than breast milk or formula will NOT be digested properly.
The World Health Organization says that giving
anything other than breast milk to infants younger than 6 months may increase the risk of bacterial infection, serious allergies, and stomach irritation.
Before introducing
anything other than breast milk or formula, you should wait until your baby is at least four months old.
However, solid foods have a reputation of making babies constipate since their digestive system is still developing and is not used to digesting
anything other than breast milk.
A baby's immune and digestive systems are not ready to deal with
anything other than breast milk or formula until he is at the very least four months old.
Your baby should not usually be given
anything other than breast milk or formula for the first 6 months of life (see our guide to introducing solids for more information).
According to leading health organizations around the world, babies do not need
anything other than breast milk or formula for the first 6 months of life.
When you start to see weaning as a process and not an event, you realize that it begins when your baby consumes
anything other than breast milk (supplemental formula or solid foods) and can then last anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to several years.
However, it is important that you consult your pediatrician before giving your baby
anything other than breast milk or formula to ensure that it is safe.
Nutritionally speaking, the American Academy of Pediatrics believes that babies do not need
anything other than breast milk (or formula) for the first six months of life.
Basically giving complex foods (
anything other than breast milk or formula) to a young infant can lead to many problems.
Not exact matches
In this day and age, when we have wonderful companies such as Nestlé making wholesome babyfood, full of all the nutrients that baby needs (more so
than breastmilk), why are some people still so backward thinking as to believe that
breast is
anything other than beastly?
«I work in the corporate world and it's because of women like you that men can't see
anything other than THAT (pointing at my chest because apparently she couldn't utter the word, «
breast»).»
Why should she feel shame or judgement for someone else's inability to view her
breasts as
anything other than sexual?
Latisha, how can a toddler even comprehend sex, let alone relating
breasts to
anything other than it's mothers comforting drink?!
I didn't like putting myself in awkward situations; I didn't like pretending not to notice someone's raised eyebrows or hear their judgmental whispers; I didn't like feeling uncomfortable because someone else couldn't see my
breasts as
anything other than sexual.
Most of you can produce enough
breast milk for your baby without much need for
anything other than frequent breastfeeding or pumping.
If you're worried about constipation and your baby is younger
than 4 months old, don't feed him
anything other than formula or
breast milk without checking with your pediatrician first.
Because when you're ten years old and getting ready for bed, on a night that's just like any
other night, no darker or starrier or more silent or more full of smells
than usual, with the familiar sound of the muezzins calling the faithful to prayer from the tops of the minarets just like anywhere else... no, when you're ten years old - I say ten, although I'm not entirely sure when I was born, because there's no registry office or
anything like that in Ghazni province - like I said, when you're ten years old, and your mother, before putting you to bed, takes your head and holds it against her
breast for a long time, longer
than usual, and says, There are three things you must never do in life, Enaiat jan, for any reason... The first is use drugs.