Okay, I'll throw in my two cents here.

These statements made me laugh out loud, nearly awakening the rest of
my family...breastfed babies gain weight more *slowly*?!  My eldest
doubled her birthweight by barely 3 months of age...and my youngest
doubled by eight weeks!  She looked like a wombat, she was so pudgy! 
If her "available energy supply" was "limited", in her case that may
have been a good thing, otherwise her limbs never would have supported
her weight when she wanted to crawl! 

Anyone who has been around breastfed babies as they go through their
first year can witness this pretty typical pattern: extra-chubby
"Buddha" babies who slim right down once they start motorvating around,
generally winding up as slender, but sturdy, toddlers. 

This "study" sounds like it has some major flaws in its methods and
therefore in its conclusions.  Asking people to recall how they looked
at five is a big red flag--most kids that age, in my experience, are
delightfully UNAWARE of how they appear...unless they have a boo-boo to
bring to everyone's attention :) 

To be blunt, I am sitting here rolling my eyes heavenward and wondering
when the complete idiocy of discrediting breastfeeding and blaming it
for EVERYTHING is ever going to end...

Carole Jernigan, IBCLC, RN, BSN
San Diego, California
 

> A few quotes from the study marked by *, and my initialed comments:
> 
> *"Breastfed infants gain weight more slowly during the first year of
> life 
> than formula-fed infants, probably due to the natural limitations of 
> available energy supply."
> 
> MCV--Notice which is the standard of reference here. And maybe I'm 
> introducing bias that only exists in MY brain and not these
> researchers, but 
> the "slower" weight gain for bf babies is due to the natural
> limitations of 
> available energy supply"?? Does that sound like bf is somehow denying
> babies 
> the extra weight??


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