The growth of healthy infants does not appear to be significantly affected by the variety, frequency or timing of introduction of complementary foods.
These results may not hold true, however, for infants living in poor environments, say researchers with the World Health Organization’s Work Group on the Growth Reference Protocol, and the Task Force on Methods for the Natural Regulation of Fertility.
They examined the associations between growth patterns and different durations of exclusive breast feeding and the types and frequency of complementary foods among infants between four and six months of age living in generally favorable socioeconomic environments.
They used data from the World Health Organization Multinational Study Breast-feeding and Lactational Amenorrhea, a seven-country longitudinal study. Among infants in whom complementary foods were introduced at different times, there were small differences in growth that were statistically significant, “but probably not biologically important,” the researchers write.
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