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Infant nutrition

Adequate nutrition during infancy is essential for lifelong health and wellbeing. Infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health. Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods, while continuing to breastfeed for up to two years or more.

PUBLICATIONS

- Publications: infant and young child feeding

RELATED LINKS

- Child and adolescent nutrition
- Nutrition: promoting proper feeding for infants and young children
- Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
- The WHO Global Data Bank on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding

FEATURES

- Q&A: What is the recommended food for children in their very early years?


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