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Home › Articles › Feeding Baby › Does Baby Know Best?

Does Baby Know Best?

The Real Scoop on Solids

Part Two

By Ann Calandro, RNC, IBCLC

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Several of the mothers who wrote had been supported in allowing their children to wait on solids until they were ready by California pediatrician Dr. Jay Gordon.

"I have countless babies in my practice who have been exclusively breastfed beyond 6 months," says Dr. Gordon. "They are all very healthy. These families tend to be pretty intelligent, nutritionally aware and therefore present a skewed segment of the population – tough to study or publish. Slower weight gain is often good, not bad ... and underweight is almost always healthier than overweight in humans of all ages. I don't believe that anemia or B12 deficiency pose a significant risk to exclusively breastfed babies through the first 12 to 20 months of life. Mother Nature and evolution rarely make mistakes that large. The seminal 'research' about anemia and other 'problems' with longer exclusive breastfeeding would not have been done without the encouragement and funding of the formula and baby food industry."

You Be the Judge
These are the stories I received. This is not a scientific study. It is simply sharing the experiences of real nursing mothers and babies.

Many of the children in this article are adults now. Their mothers found that no short-term or long-term ill effects came from waiting until their children began to show signs of readiness for solid foods. All of these mothers felt comfortable with the way their children ate. All have lived to tell about it. None of these babies are still living on mushy foods, refusing to accept a variety of foods or depending on breast milk for their total sustenance. I hope that their stories are useful to other mothers who are living with babies who "just say NO."

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