Mothers of pre-term infants in the United Kingdom seem to be poor at complying with official guidelines on feeding their babies.
The introduction of complementary foods varies widely, say researchers at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. In a study to identify current infant feeding practices, the researchers conducted interviews on milk and complementary feeding practices with the mothers of 253 pre-term infants (139 male, 114 female) until the infants were a year old.
The infants included 33 sets of twins and three sets of triplets. Nearly half (49 percent) of the pre-term infants received their first solid foods – the commencement of weaning – before the infant weighed at least five kilograms, the minimum recommended by the UK’s Department of Health guideline
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