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Good morning from @babyfriendly's 24th annual conference, with over 1800 delegates online over two days. It's @shereen_fisher's conference as Programme Director. This year there are networking spaces where delegates can meet the Baby Friendly team. Posters are online too #bfconf 
Chief Executive of @UNICEF_uk @jon_sparkes is welcoming delegates & speaking on the value of investing in the early years &giving children the best start that we can. We are living through challenging times: pandemic, maternity service reports, staff shortages, food insecurity...
.@UNICEF global priorities around vaccinations, climate change, helping displaced families. @UNICEF_uk looking at fundraising, lobbying for greater spending on intl development, work on the rights of the child. #BabyAndToddlerGuarantee campaign unicef.org.uk/campaign-with-…
1/ EU Commission @Food_EU is responsible for labelling commercial infant foods and asked EFSA for scientific advice on #ComplementaryFeeding (puree or solids) for infants in Europe who are still consuming milk (🤱/🍼/both)
What did we do?
What did we do?
2/ Assessed scientific evidence on #infantnutrition #infantdevelopment & #infanthealth. DYK it’s not EFSA’s job to look at social/cultural aspects? BUT EU decision-makers will consider them because these aspects are important
AND the science says…
AND the science says…
3/ There’s no single precise age when to start #ComplementaryFeeding based on the science. For nutrition reasons most infants start at 6 months but it can be earlier depending on #developmentalreadiness, food texture, health effect signs, nutritional need
Let’s be clearer…
Let’s be clearer…
A thread about infant readmissions to hospital in the UK. Prompted by a recent paper in @bmcseries #bmcpediatrics. I’ll talk thru the data & some wider issues that are the focus of debate in #infantfeeding - 1/n
bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Why is this important? Well, there is a lot of discussion going on, mainly in mass media and social media, about possible relationships between #infantfeeding policy & practice and sufficiency of #breastfeeding in the early days/weeks of life 2/n
My personal interest in this area: while having my own kids, I trained & volunteered to provide #breastfeeding support locally and continue to follow the research and evolving discussions 3/n
