>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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