Catherine writes:
 
<<Another explanation for  greater weight gain in schedule fed infants is 
that when the infant knows  it's going to be a looong time before he gets 
access to food again, he is  likely to gorge himself, setting up a 
pattern that can lead to a disordered  relationship to food for life. 
There are studies that show that  self-regulation leads to more normal 
weights in childhood, whereas parental  control (either coaxing to eat 
more or restriction of food) leads to  obesity>>
 
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And as some of us can attest to many  many years later, Catherine is right 
on.  Stuffing your child until  they could hardly breathe four times a day to 
make sure they slept at least 12  hours at night from about 2 weeks of age on 
has been a popular method of  child-feeding since the 1920s and it isn't going 
away fast.  We are simply  going around in circles with obesity on the rise.....
 
Betcha if you talked to women in  their 40s, 50s and 60s who are obese, you 
would find out that is how they  were fed.  
 
I know.  I'm one of  them. 



 
 Jan  Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
_Lactation Education  Consultants_ 
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com/)  




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