Sentences with phrase «exclusive breast milk diet»

If a baby is on an exclusive breast milk diet, even if the breastfeeding parent isn't directly feeding the baby, she still had to put in extra work to pump milk ahead of time in anticipation of having another caregiver help her out.

An exclusive breast milk diet can meet the nutritional needs of term babies for the first six months, with continued breast milk feeding in addition to solid foods for the first two years of life.

Not exact matches

Breast milk is important for every single baby - but it's especially important for premature babies to receive an exclusive human milk diet.

Here are a couple good examples of the studies that show that early introduction of solid foods (before 6 - 9 months) slows growth: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+effect+of+beikost+on+the+diet+of+breast-fed+infants http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9347292 Quote: «Those results suggest that for breast - fed infants, early introduction of [other foods] reduces milk consumption and may lead to significantly lower weight gain than continuation of the exclusive breast - milk diet.»

Meanwhile, Rachel is thriving on her exclusive breast - milk diet, just as I had always intended.