Implementation of the who recommendations on the introduction of complementary foods to artificially fed children

Infants do not have the physiological maturity to move from exclusively liquid food directly to food from the family table. Therefore, to bridge this gap between needs and opportunities, transitional food is needed, and the need persists until about 1 year. Official recommendations published in the Netherlands say that children with sufficient growth indicators, from an alimentary point of view, do not need to be given any complementary food until 6 months. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends an age of "6 months", and the same has been adopted by various member States of the WHO European Region.