The quote caught me off-guard at first--I was thinking of all those 
roly-poly 2- and 3-month-olds I've known. However, then I recalled that 
these kiddos all dropped a bit of weight in the first days after birth 
before rebounding to their birth weights. *Then* began the exponential 
growth. Obviously one doesn't want a baby starving, but it does seem some 
measure of weight loss is normal and healthy in the first week.

I do not believe it is in any way healthy or normal to lose weight in the first days or week of life. Homebirth babies rarely lose any weight at all. Since uninterrupted birth is the biological norm and homebirth is the closet to that, I would venture to say that  what we observe in homebirths is normal and any behavior seen in a hospital setting is suspect. 

Further, I am not convinced that all those roly-poly breastfed babeis who grow so rapidly are healthy. Many of those babies are growing on a very high-lactose load, caused by poor latch and hence oversupply. I have posed this question before--shouldn't we be concerned that such growth is a risk factor for obesity and diabetes?
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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