Starting Solids - Under Pressure To Start Too Soon?
Comments: 0 - Date: July 7th, 2009 - Categories: Premature babies
When you have a baby - particularly your first - a little advice from friends and family can be very useful. But when it comes to feeding your little one, the advice you receive may conflict with that given by your pediatrician. So what do you do when the advice begins to feel like criticism - or even pressure?
Many medical authorities worldwide, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that babies receive only breast milk or infant formula for the first 6 months of life. But previous generations of parents received quite different advice and those same parents - now grandparents - may be somewhat dismissive - or even contemptuous - of current guidelines. They may tell you that YOU were given solid foods from 6 weeks of age and that YOU’VE suffered no ill effects. How do you respond to this?
Firstly, You can simply state that you prefer to follow the recommendations given by your child’s pediatrician, which have changed significantly in the last few years.