Infant Feeding

Background

Health Canada develops and promotes guidelines for healthy eating, physical activity, and healthy weights. As a specific initiative to promote healthy eating in infants, Health Canada develops guidelines for use by health care professionals.

Projects

• Release of Two Revised Infant Feeding Recommendations
  
  
  • Update of Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants - January 2006

Resources

• Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration, 2004 Health Canada Recommendation (E/F) A four page document which includes the recommendation, rationale and references.
  
  
• Questions and answers for professionals - Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration (E/F) Only available on the Health Canada website.
  
  
• Vitamin D Supplementation for Breastfed Infants, 2004 Health Canada Recommendation (E/F) A four page document which includes the recommendation, rationale and reference.
  
  
• Questions and answers for professionals - Vitamin D Supplementation for Breastfed Infants (E/F) Only available on the Health Canada website.
  
  
• Recommendations for Breastfed Infants (Bilingual) - A one page factsheet which includes both recommendations.
  
  
• Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants - Statement of the Joint Working Group This document is a joint statement from Health Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society and Dietitians of Canada, published in 1998 and updated in December 2005 to reflect the two revised infant feeding recommendations.