Since I work for WIC I see many bottlefeeding moms, and yes, they have
growth spurts too where the mom has to increase the amount in the bottle.
 Plain as day!   How can the research point to "steady" needs til 6 months
when the baby is growing an inch a month, and often almost tripling the
weight.   All I can think of is that he means the demand for calories per
kg of weight are the same for the first 6 months, and that is true.   But
that does not mean that the same amount of breastmilk is needed each day!
  Michelle Scott, RD,MA,IBCLC in iced NH


Subject:        Growth spurts -- caused by mom or babe?

Pamela Morrison, Joy Anderson and others have been speculating about
whether
the feeding frenzies at 2 wks, 6 wks, 3 mos, 6mos etc that we all know as
growth spurts may not really be more closely related to mom's supply dips
than
to babies' increased needs, especially in view of Peter Hartman's research
suggesting that babies needs are steady until about 6 months.

So I wonder:  do bottle feeders have a convention of  growth spurts at
those
ages?   Presumably that would not be related to supply!   Anyone know?

Elisheva Urbas in NYC, where it is cold enough to make the skin on your
cheeks
crackle.