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When your baby is ready to start eating solid foods, keep these general guidelines in mind: Continue to offer breast milk or formula while introducing solid foods. If you are breastfeeding, your doctor may suggest that you eat more calories each day than otherwise recommended for a person of your height and weight. If you have questions about breastfeeding, formula feeding, or a food allergy, call is ready to start eating solid foods, keep these general guidelines in mind:. The Breastfeeding My Baby guide, available inside the Pregnancy Passport, is a helpful tool that can be printed and posted in health care facilities to promote jurisdictional scan of breastfeeding initiatives in BC health authorities and across Canada. The focus is on breastfeeding plans, strategies, policies, guidelines/.1 May 2012 These guidelines, based on current evidence, are for health care providers in BC who care for women and infants. Areas addressed are: guiding principles, prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care which is further delineated into three periods: 2 – 24 hours, 24 – 72 hours, and 72 hours to 7 days and beyond. The protective properties of breast milk decrease with refrigeration and freezing. But stored breast milk is the next best thing to fresh breast milk as a complete Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months (and sustained for up to two years or longer with appropriate complementary feeding) is important for the nutrition, immunologic protection, growth, and development of infants and toddlers. Why you should breastfeed, when to breastfeed, how to know if your baby is getting enough, whether your baby needs more than breast milk, what to eat, foods Most health care providers recommend that you exclusively breastfeed your baby for the first 6 months. If you have questions about breastfeeding, speak with your doctor, midwife, public health nurse, lactation consultant, or call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1 to speak with a registered nurse or dietitian.