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Svezzamento libero, svezzamento felice?
Baby-led weaning, happy weaning?
Lucio Piermarini
Pediatra di Comunità, Terni
Gennaio 2020 - pagg. 16 -19
Abstract
To be allowed to ask the question in the title, and possibly to propose an alternative option,
one should be sufficiently sure that weaning, as it has been popular for the last
decades, is neither happy nor free, given that freedom is enough to be happy. The literature
that helps and has always helped to understand better is sufficient to show a different
way from the one that today has been already trodden but, I dare say, is inexplicably
either little known or little put into practice.
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