Hi all

Rachel, this is so interesting. Please tell me more and point me in  
the direction of these studies. For years I have been observing that  
some babies become complacent about eating . I see this the most with  
moms with breast reductions and augmentations. Many  of these moms I  
have worked with will make JUST enough milk but not a drop more and  
their babies sleep through the night very young (co-bedding) and gain  
on the slow side even with lots of daily feeding. Their babies are  
happy and healthy and lean.  I have been looking for good studies to  
help explain this  phenomena to the mothers I work with to help keep  
them on their toes. I speculate that the appetite center of a baby   
doesn't have to have a huge amount of weight loss  to  go into this  
"anorexia mode" if the baby is chronically getting low milk feeds. I  
would love to see studies done on this.

Rachel wrote:
We know from studies simulating dietary conditions in concentration  
camps
that after losing a critical amount of body mass, the appetite center  
stops
triggering the individual to eat and they can show the clinical signs of
anorexia nervosa.  This baby has lost so much weight that he could  
have had
his 'feed me' switch turned off.

Star here:
Thank you Rachel for bring up a important but not well understood  
finding.

Star Siegfried RN, BA, IBCLC

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