She came to the health checkup at six months and found that her length and weight were only at the 4-month level, while her physical development was still standard at the last 3-month checkup. After careful questioning of the feeding history, she found that she was exclusively breastfed until 3 months of age and started formula feeding at 3 months. After formula feeding, she had mild skin eczema intermittently, and her family history revealed that her mother also had allergies (allergic rhinitis) and her blood tests showed eosinophilia. The child health care provider considered that Guagua might be suffering from growth retardation due to milk protein allergy. After one month of feeding with deeply hydrolyzed milk powder, the skin eczema subsided, the growth rate caught up, and the blood eosinophils returned to normal. It was clear that Gua Gua’s previous growth retardation was caused by milk protein allergy. There are many children like Gua Gua in the child health department every day, and many parents regret that they did not insist on breastfeeding! I believe we all know the benefits of breastfeeding, but artificial feeding can cause lifelong damage to your baby that you may not know! WHO has made breastfeeding a strategic goal to protect child survival and development! The Lancet, a British medical journal, published an article arguing that in developing countries, increasing the proportion of breastfeeding alone may be more effective in preventing “a large proportion of child deaths and illnesses” than improving hygiene. Moms, you may be taking your baby to the doctor over and over again, yet the root cause of the repeated visits is probably because you didn’t stick to breastfeeding in the first place! Love him, give him breast milk! (Exclusive breastfeeding until 6 months, insist on breastfeeding until after 2 years old) Attachment: The International Code of Marketing of Milk Substitutes stipulates: 1. Advertising of milk substitutes, bottles or rubber nipples to the public is prohibited. 2. It is prohibited to provide free samples of milk replacer products to mothers. 3. The use of these products in health care facilities is prohibited. 4. It is prohibited for companies to market these products to mothers. 5. It is prohibited to give milk products or samples to health care workers 6. It is prohibited to advertise artificial feeding in the form of words or pictures including pictures of babies on product labels. Despite these regulations, China is failing in this area of breastfeeding promotion! The breastfeeding rate for Chinese mothers at six months after birth is only 28% – in the cities, the figure is only 16%. The global average for breastfeeding is about 40 percent. “The government has failed to promote the benefits of breastfeeding on a very large scale because marketing by formula companies has crowded out this promotion.” This paragraph aims to promote breastfeeding and aims to protect our children well!