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Benefits for the child:
- it is the natural food for your baby, therefore usually the most digestible and accepted (in fact, it may happen that some types of artificial milk may not be liked by all the children);
- it nourishes the baby completely (your mother's brain, through biochemical signals sent by the baby himself in the act of sucking, modifies the composition of your milk to respond to the baby's needs, adapted to his growth);
- no other food or drink is needed until six months old
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Some recipes:
vegetable broth: cook a potato, a courgette, a carrot and a few lettuce leaves if desired;
use the broth to cook some pasta;
the vegetables can be blended or pureed and added to the pasta (or left in large pieces as long as they are very soft and the child is supervised during their consumption);
lentil soup: boil some lentils;
add them to the pasta cooked in the vegetable broth;
when cold, add a teaspoon of oil and a spoonful of Parmesan;
rice (or small pasta) and chickpeas
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The WHO (World Health Organisation) recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months. It is also important to carry on breastfeeding (even if in less quantity) even after the introduction of complementary foods (at the beginning of the weaning process, you can give your milk as a supplement at the end of each meal and slowly decrease the quantity), up to two years of age and beyond, and in any case as long as mother and child so desire.
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It is advisable to start weaning around six months, following the indications given by the WHO which declared that a diet exclusively based on mother's milk is to be preferred until the sixth month is completed.
After that, weaning can be tried when the child shows what are considered the "signals" that indicate that he is ready to receive a diet other than milk alone:
- sits alone;
- shows a well supported head and chest for an increasingly long time (at least 15 minutes without