TY - JOUR T1 - Breastfeeding method and infant weight gain: look at the evidence JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 639 LP - 639 DO - 10.1136/adc.2008.142414 VL - 93 IS - 7 AU - C A Walshaw AU - J Owens AU - M Walshaw Y1 - 2008/07/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/93/7/639.1.abstract N2 - We are delighted that our paper “Does breastfeeding method influence infant weight gain” has stimulated Woolridge and Ingram to look again at current breastfeeding practice,1 and we now take the opportunity to reply to their letter.2They describe the “baby-led” breastfeeding method as “entrenched evidence-based practice”: “entrenched” it may be, but we find the use of the term “evidence-based” surprising since this was not the conclusion reached in Enabling women to breastfeed co-authored by Woolridge himself.3 This was a structured literature review commissioned by the Department of Health to identify research studies that assessed interventions which enabled or interfered with the continuation of breastfeeding. It concluded that there wasn’t sufficient evidence … ER -