Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition

Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition 3(2+1)

Lesson 13:Weaning

Need for weaning

• Breast milk alone is not able to provide sufficient amount of all nutrients needed to maintain growth after the first 6 months.
• Increasing needs of calories and protein of growing children cannot be met by diminishing output of mother’s milk.
• Milk is a poor source of vitamin C, vitamin D and iron. Therefore weaning (supplementary feeding) has to be resorted to immediately after 6 months.

Calorie dense foods like malted foods should be given to infants.

Weaning should provide at least 10% of energy