Complementary Feeding: Critical Considerations to Optimize Growth, Nutrition, and Feeding Behavior

Current Pediatrics Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 247-256

  Young, Bridget E ^a   Krebs, Nancy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Complementary feeding; Human milk; Infant formula; Infant growth; Iron; Protein; Zinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969579544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21674841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40124-013-0030-8     Document Type: Article

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