🧪 General Principles🟢 BasicInfant Nutrition

Breastfeeding and Infant Nutrition

The feeding of babies with breast milk, the ideal first food, and the way solid foods are added as the baby grows.

Key points

Breast milk is the ideal food for a baby, providing the right nutrients, antibodies for protection, and a bond with the mother.
Exclusive breastfeeding is advised for about the first six months, meaning only breast milk and no other food or water.
The first milk, colostrum, is rich in antibodies and is especially valuable in the earliest days.
Breastfeeding protects against infection and, later, against obesity, and it benefits the mother's health too.
From about six months, soft complementary foods are added while breastfeeding continues, to meet the growing baby's needs.

Memory trick

Breast milk is the ideal infant food (right nutrients, protective antibodies, bonding): exclusive for about six months; colostrum is antibody-rich; protects against infection and obesity; add soft complementary foods from about six months.

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🧪 General Principles🟢 BasicInfant Nutrition

Breastfeeding and Infant Nutrition

The feeding of babies with breast milk, the ideal first food, and the way solid foods are added as the baby grows.

Key points

Breast milk is the ideal food for a baby, providing the right nutrients, antibodies for protection, and a bond with the mother.
Exclusive breastfeeding is advised for about the first six months, meaning only breast milk and no other food or water.
The first milk, colostrum, is rich in antibodies and is especially valuable in the earliest days.
Breastfeeding protects against infection and, later, against obesity, and it benefits the mother's health too.
From about six months, soft complementary foods are added while breastfeeding continues, to meet the growing baby's needs.

Memory trick

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