In providing nutrition counseling for the mother of an infant, nurses should stress that
1. All infants should receive ferrous sulfate drops.
2. Bottle-fed babies should receive iron-fortified commercial formula.
3. Breast-fed babies should not be given iron supplements.
4. Iron supplementation is necessary only for preterm infants.
ANS: 2
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