Diane, I agree. Mothers who have done direct breastfeeding then pump and
feed their milk with bottles report that the baby doesn't have to eat as
often. So do they overeat? Then what about those studies that have proven
that breastfeed teens/adults have less risk of obesity-Where they only
studying those that were directly breastfeed or those who had bottles of
expressed breastmilk? Just wondering? Mary Ann Krainz RN, IBCLC in WI

-----Original Message-----
From: Diane [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:25 PM
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Subject: bottle-feeding breastmilk


>She questioned this statement because she
>had been told that babies digest breastmilk faster than formula, which is
>why they feed more often.  The pediatrician said that babies digest milk
>fast when they breast feed, but that expressed breast milk is the same as
>formula.

I wonder.  Could there possibly be some truth to this?  The average
breastfeed can be pretty small.  The average bottle-feed is, well, a
bottle's worth.  I could believe the bottle-fed breastmilk baby tends to
develop a larger stomach and can actually *be* satisfied longer than his
breastfed counterpart.  His mom may be pumping only 8 times a day for him,
where she'd almost certainly be nursing him more often than that.  Lots out
of the breast at one time, lots into the baby at one time.  Not a matter of
rate of digestion, but of quantity to be digested...
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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