All that talk about breastfeeding being good for babies. Throughout university and now as a new mother, the benefits of breastfeeding has been drilled into me. Yes to the bonding, increased immunity, decreased infections, decreased risk in obesity etc.
The Guardian had this article recently. Well and good about trying to withhold weaning until at least 6 months. I'm on the path to doing that (save a couple of incidents with rice cake and breadstick), but decreased risk of obesity? Puppy was on the 98th centile for weight until just a couple of weeks ago when he dropped down to 91st. I was almost afraid of getting an obese breastfed baby. I have to say though, that looking at the bottle fed babies from the antenatal class, even the lighter ones look flabby with loads of folds. So maybe it's not so much weight, but body composition, and true to form, the breastfed baby really does look leaner.
Anyway, what do babies in the USA eat?
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