WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months continued up to two
years with complementary foods but too many babies in the Region are fed breast - milk substitutes, such as infant formula and «growing - up milks».
Consider that the World Health Organization (WHO) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) that a baby be exclusively breastfed for the first six months (and then breastfed
with complementary foods until 1 - 2 years old or longer).
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, and
continuing with complementary foods to at least 12 months and thereafter for as long as mother and baby desire.
1) Beans are incomplete proteins and need to be
paired with a complementary food to be considered complete (for example, brown rice, oats, peanut butter, etc.).
Compared with complementary food ads, formula product ads used more marketing strategies such as antenatal classes and baby contests to influence consumers and promote products.
«It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that exclusive breast - feeding provides optimal nutrition and health protection for the first 6 months of life, and breast -
feeding with complementary foods from 6 months until at least 12 months of age is the ideal feeding pattern for infants.
There are several ways you can boost your intake of spirulina, but if you can find ways to include the
algae with complementary foods and nutrients, such as chlorella, astaxanthin and fruit extracts, the power of spirulina is even more enhanced.
The World Health Organization advises mothers to breastfeed exclusively for six months and continue to breastfeed
along with complementary foods for two years or longer.
Meanwhile, The World Health Organization recommends babies are breastfed exclusively for at least the first six months of life,
with complementary foods and breastfeeding recommended up to two years of age.
The American Academy Of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months and to continue with partial breastfeeding, that is,
with complementary food, for at least a year.
Breastfeeding should continue through the rest of the baby's first year,
with complementary foods being introduced, and the greatest protective effect is realized when breastfeeding continues through the child's second year or beyond.
When difficulties encountered by mothers are shared with their partners, babies will have a better chance of receiving breast milk exclusively for the recommended six months, and
with complementary food could continue to breastfeed for two years or more.
Exclusive breastfeeding (with no other liquids or foods) is recommended for the first 6 months, with continued breastfeeding beyond
this with complementary foods).
At 12 wk, 11 % of the women practiced exclusive breastfeeding, 82 % of the women practiced breastfeeding
with complementary foods, and 6 % of the women were not breastfeeding.
However, we noted that the introduction of nonbreastfeeding at 1 y, when the children were 15 mo old, was a significant main effect of the D treatment because 4 women who had not received the D treatment were still providing breastfeeding
with complementary foods.
has found that: these benefits increase with increased exclusiveness of breastfeeding during the first six months of life, and thereafter with increased duration of breastfeeding
with complementary foods, and programme intervention can result in positive changes in breastfeeding behaviour
At the 1 - y follow - up, all women from the D and DE groups were not breastfeeding, whereas 2 women from the C and E groups were still breastfeeding
with complementary foods, which led to a significant main effect of the D treatment on introducing nonbreastfeeding (P = 0.030).