OLD IS GOLD #INFANT FEEDING I am a paediatrician with 39 years experience. Sometimes recommendations regarding feeding of infants are changed . Many factors and studies done by researchers lead to these recommendations.
But sometimes these studies are sponsored by pharma companies and baby food manufactures and the new generation of doctors go by the latest recommendations and advise the parents accordingly Dr Benjamin Spock wrote a book on child care - which proved to a best seller and I also used to advise the first time mothers to read these books , many of their queries were answered in this book Dr Spock expired at the age of 91 years in 1998 . He admitted his mistake regarding recommending bottle feeding of the child in his later years In India we always encouraged breast feeding as long as mother can given and till 1990s weaning foods were recommended at the age of 4 months . All…