Research based at Harvard University and the University of Illinois found that non-parental care, including by childminders or family members, means that an infant is less likely to be breast-fed and more likely to start solid foods early. The researchers assessed 8,150 infants aged nine months from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative cohort. The factors they examined were breastfeeding initiation, early introduction of solid foods (at under four months), and weight gain from birth to nine months. Juhee Kim, co-author of the...