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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/14/six-months-b
To the outrage of breastfeeding campaigners and probably the utter confusion
of most women with small babies, scientists today advocate rewriting the
rulebook to drop the current guidance that says mothers should breastfeed
exclusively for the first six months of their child's life.
It was 2001 when the World Health Organisation announced that exclusive
breastfeeding for six months was best for babies. In 2003 the then Labour
minister Hazel Blears adopted the recommendation for the UK.
But today, in the British Medical Journal, doctors from several leading
child health institutes say the evidence for the WHO guidance was never
there – and that failing to start weaning babies on to solids before six
months could be harmful.
Mary Fewtrell, from the childhood nutrition research centre at the
University College London Institute of Child Health, said probably no babies
had been harmed, as few mothers in the UK manage to stick to six months of
nothing but breastmilk with a baby who by then is taking an interest in the
contents of people's plates. "About 1% were doing it in 2005, although
probably more now," she said. "But only about 20% breastfeed at all at six
months. It is not a common behaviour."
Fewtrell and colleagues from Edinburgh and Birmingham universities say that
is partly because mothers often find by that stage that their babies want
more. Their trawl of the existing evidence shows, they say, that babies also
need more.
According to the paper, failing to start weaning on to solid food (they are
not talking about formula milk) before six months appears to raise risks for
the baby. Evidence that was unavailable when the WHO made its
recommendation suggests they have a greater chance of iron deficiency
anaemia, "known to be linked to irreversible adverse mental, motor or
psychosocial outcomes." Unlike the US, the UK does not have a screening
programme for iron deficiencies in children, so it is impossible to say if
there have been problems.
Other evidence, they say, suggests that babies not introduced to certain
foods earlier than six months may have a higher incidence of food allergies.
"Countries where peanuts are used as weaning foods have low incidences of
peanut allergy (Israel, for example)," they write.
The third potential issue is coeliac disease. The numbers of children
developing coeliac disease rose in Sweden following advice to mothers to
delay the introduction of gluten into their child's diet until after six
months, and it fell when the recommendation reverted to four months.
Fewtrell said she supported the WHO recommendation, but argued that it
needed to be interpreted differently in different countries. Exclusive
breastfeeding protects against infections, which is critical in developing
countries, but less important in the UK where hygiene and sanitation are
better. "There's only one piece of evidence relevant to babies in the UK –
a slightly decreased risk of gastroenteritis," she said.
She said she hoped the government's scientific advisory committee on
nutrition, which is looking at infant feeding, would take on board their
findings.
Advocates of breastfeeding point out that the recommendation not to wean
until six months has substantially cut the numbers of women who introduced
solids before four months – from 85% in 2000 to 51% in 2005. But Fewtrell
said that was no argument for misleading women.
"I really want to emphasise we are not in any way anti-breastfeeding,
particularly in the long term," she said. "We're extremely pro-breastfeeding
. We would go along with recommendations to breastfeed exclusively for four
months."
Pro-breastfeeding groups were dismayed, however. Unicef pointed out that it
did not contain any new experimental data and said the UK policy had been a
success as greater numbers of mothers now delayed the introduction of solids
until after four months. It added that most early foods "are not nutrient
dense and do not provide quantities of iron and zinc".
Patti Rundall, of the campaigning group Baby Milk Action, said moving to
weaning at four months would be "a regrettable and backward step that is out
of step with current scientific thinking".
She accused the paper's authors of taking funds from the babyfood industry.
The paper acknowledges that three of the four authors "have performed
consultancy work and/or received research funding from companies
manufacturing infant formulas and baby foods within the past three years".
Fewtrell was unapologetic. Ideally, mothers would give their babies fresh
food, including meat, for iron. "This is not an attempt to promote
commercial weaning foods," she said. "We are a university and Medical
Research Council-funded group." They had advised babyfood manufacturers
because they were specialists in child nutrition, she said.
"Some organisations are all too happy to quote our data when it supports
breastfeeding," she said. "They are choosy in what they will allow."
Justine Roberts of Mumsnet said women needed clarity after at least three
changes of policy in her own child-rearing years. "A lot of mums work quite
hard, and it is quite hard work trying to exclusively breasfeed for six
months without introducing solids. If that turns out not to be correct
advice, we'd like to know as soon as possible."
The Department of Health said it would review the research, adding: "Breast
milk provides all the nutrients a baby needs up to six months of age and we
recommend exclusive breastfeeding for this time." "Mothers who wish to
introduce solids before six months should always talk to health
professionals first."
• This article was amended on 14 January 2011. In the original, the
heading said: Six months of breastfeeding alone could harm babies,
scientists now say. This has been expanded to include the full wording that
appeared in the Guardian newspaper. | k*****1
发帖数: 4231 | | a***c
发帖数: 728 | 3 breastfeed exclusively for four months then introduce solid foods
【在 k*****1 的大作中提到】
: 太长了mm总结个中心思想吧
| l****7
发帖数: 975 | 4 Exactly.
美国这边医生一直不让加辅食。我倒是很早加了，不过一直加的很少。看来还是亏着孩
子了。真是尽信书不如无书，尽信医不如无医。 烦死了
【在 a***c 的大作中提到】
: breastfeed exclusively for four months then introduce solid foods
| R*********i
发帖数: 7643 | 5 其实具体要看宝宝是不是发育到时候了，ready了四个多月可以开始试试米糊，否则等
等也不要紧－不要太教条。怕缺铁的喂奶的时候给加点含铁的维生素就好了。其他的什
么食物过敏一类的问题主要是遗传决定的。 | f*****7
发帖数: 1008 | 6 我们的儿医告诉我们传统的习惯是6个月开始上辅食，不过新的理论是4个月就可以开始
尝试了，越早过渡越好。 | c*******e
发帖数: 9475 | 7 好像是讲6个月满了再加辅食不好，要更早开始加
这些人整天变来变去的，都不知道听谁的好。反正我家两个
都是4个月就看他们馋得不行忍不住加了，也挺好的
【在 k*****1 的大作中提到】
: 太长了mm总结个中心思想吧
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