- Cost: The Chinese source describes no direct milk-purchase cost and savings on formula, but substantial daily time and sustained effort. This does not mean breastfeeding support or equipment is always free.
- In plain language: WHO recommends starting breastfeeding within an hour of birth, exclusive breastfeeding for six months without other food or liquids, including water, then safe and adequate complementary foods with continued breastfeeding to two years or beyond. The Chinese source also describes formula as an option when breastfeeding is insufficient or not possible, without blaming the parent. Individual feeding difficulties and medically indicated alternatives require assessment rather than treating this recommendation as a prohibition on necessary supplementation.
- Benefit: WHO’s core recommendations above have been checked on its official page. The mainland-China nutrition-assessment guide’s main text specifies daily complementary feeds one to two times at six to eight months and two to three times at nine to twelve months. It specifies at least four of seven food groups daily, including an iron-rich animal food, a vegetable and a grain or tuber food. Its assessment table counts solid or semisolid complementary feeds separately from milk feeds. These are mainland-China guidance statements, not a universal individualized feeding plan. The Chinese source also attributes exclusive breastfeeding at zero to six months to this guide; that separate attribution remains pending verification.
- Evidence grade: A, as assigned by the Chinese source; not an independent RecheckNest approval.
- Sources: World Health Organization. Breastfeeding. https://www.who.int/health-topics/breastfeeding; National Health Commission General Office (2024). Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Feeding Assessment Service Guide (trial), document 452. https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/202502/content_7002872.htm
- Notes: The Chinese source recommends formula when milk supply is insufficient or breastfeeding is not possible. It claims that feeding-choice differences matter much less for safety than sleep position; that comparative claim remains unverified and must not be treated as an established quantitative ranking. For severe eczema or egg allergy and peanut introduction, it refers to chapter 20, entry 12; for vegetarian diets and vitamin B12, to entry 14. Those cross-references require their own clinical and regional checks.
Editorial scope: WHO recommendations and the mainland-China service guide have distinct provenance. The complementary-food age ranges and food-group requirements were checked in the full guide’s main text through an official municipal-government mirror; the assessment table corroborates individual age points. Earlier access failures and partial checks remain in the separate review record. Specific medical exceptions, formula preparation, the safe-sleep comparison and independent bilingual and clinical review remain unfinished. This draft has no publication approval.