Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) is an alternative method for introducing complementary foods to infants in which the infant feeds themselves hand-held foods instead of being spoon-fed by an adult. The BLW infant also shares family food and mealtimes and is offered milk (ideally breast milk) on demand until they self-wean. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many parents are choosing this method instead of ...

Objectives Weaning is a key life history milestone for mammals that represents both the end of nutritional investment from perspective mothers and start complete independence infants. The age at weaning may vary depending on ecological, social, demographic factors experienced by mother infant. Bwindi mountain gorillas live in different environmental conditions have longer interbirth intervals t...

Five million children aged less than five years die annually due to diarrhoea. The aim of the study was to identify some possible contributing factors for persistent diarrhoea. Seven weaning foods, including a locally-made food, were evaluated by estimating the microbial load using the most probable number method and aflatoxin levels (AFM1, AFG1, AFG2, and AFB2) by immunoaffinity column extract...

Abstract Maternal lactational investment can affect female reproductive rates and offspring survival in mammals be biased towards infants of one sex. We compared estimates lactation effort among mothers, assessed as their potential milk contribution to age-specific infant diets (mother-infant differences fecal stable nitrogen isotopes, δ 15 N), the timing weaning (infant age at last nursing bou...

Proper breastfeeding practices are effective ways for reducing childhood morbidity and mortality. While many mothers understand the importance of breastfeeding, others are less knowledgeable on the benefits of breastfeeding and weaning. The aim in here is to assess breastfeeding pattern, infant formula feeding pattern, and weaning introduction in Mauritius and to investigate the factors that in...

The WHO (2001) recommends exclusive breast-feeding and delaying the introduction of solid foods to an infant's diet until 6 months postpartum. However, in many countries, this recommendation is followed by few mothers, and earlier weaning onto solids is a commonly reported global practice. Therefore, this prospective, observational study aimed to assess compliance with the WHO recommendation an...

The efficacy of combining rate and pressure reduction during weaning by synchronous intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) were compared with weaning by patient triggered ventilation (PTV) (pressure reduction alone) in two randomised trials. Regardless of ventilation mode, pressure was reduced to the same level according to the size of the infant. In the first trial, the SIMV rate was also r...

A weaning food based on malted foxtail millet flour (30%), malted barnyard millet flour (30%), roasted soybean flour (25%) and skim milk powder (15%) was prepared. The mix contained 18.37 g protein and 398 kcal energy per 100g. The nutrient composition of this unfortified weaning (UW) mix met the Prevention of Food Adulteration (PFA) standards, except in total ash. In order to meet the minor co...

In different countries and societies there is a variety of successful weaning practices. This empirical observation leads immediately to the conclusion that there is a range of practices—qualitative, quantitative, and temporal—within which infants can thrive. In the elusive search for the "optimal" feeding regime, the changing nutritional requirements of the growing and developing infant must b...