Hi, Just an anecdote of one... My second daughter, also at around 2 months or so, suddenly took a huge upswing on the weight curve. (Too many years ago to remember the weights!) My pedi told me I was feeding her too much. I basically told him that was a pretty stupid thing to say and continued nursing on request. At that age she was still nursing every two hours during the day, but was sleeping almost 7 to 8 hours at night! She was still getting at least 8 feeds in per day, and letting me sleep! I certainly wasn't going to change anything. (And now, at 9 years, she is a very lean child, which she has been since the preschool years.) On another side, a friend has a 26 month old who weighs over 50 lbs! He was fed expressed BM for over a year (never latched), and was always heavy. I wonder what difference there is in what is in the bottle vs the act of bottle feeding or nursing itself. I never saw her coax him to finish a bottle as I see formula feeding moms do. Mom is obese herself, so is it just genetics, or would nursing him have helped? Marita Nickison, RN, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html