Nina, 

you asked:
I am wondering when the risks associated with
slow growth begin to outweigh the risks associated with supplementation.
Has anyone done or seen any research on this? 

During my Phd researches, begun in 1999, thought this was a really key 
question, and I searched.  I didn't find anything, which may not mean that 
there isn't anything, but no one has come up to me to tell me about it after 
my papers have been published, etc.  I think it is astonishing that we don't 
have investigation of this issue.  I think it really illuminates our culture 
and supervaluing of weight gain over other well-baby measures.  Of course, 
it is complex as to how our culure came to this and how we exported it.  
Obviously there is some physiological oxymoronic truth to the value for 
infant growth!!  But we have it all out of proportion, in a lot of 
interesting ways. 

Magda Sachs, PhD.
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK 

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