Meg Kingsley said:

> As an aside I have often wondered how much my compulsion to eat when I
> am not hungry, driven by an  "it is meal time"  attitude rather than
> real appetite cues, can be blamed on scheduled bottle feeding as a baby?
> Nothing research based here, just a pondering that if babies become
> programmed to eat at certain times, to ignore hunger cues out of
> frustration and to not be able to indicate a need to stop feeding when
> full-doesn't this sound like classic eating disorder behaviour?

I have often thought of this myself.  In my extended family (my in-law
family) the other (I mean other than MY one) babies have been
schedule-fed on bottles, and THEN later on, on real meals.  I have 2
nephews, 4.5 and 3 yrs old, who are NOT ALLOWED to eat in between
meals.  Not even "good for them" things like veggies and fruit.  They
were on 4 set bottlefeed times per day by 4 months of age (and "sleeping
through"), and are now on 3 set mealtimes per day:  breakfast, lunch,
and supper.

I can't even begin to think of the kind of impact this may have later
on.  Luckily they come from skinny stock to begin with.

Fio
ressource person with Allaitement Québec
Mama to Sandrine, 2yo! and #2, 11/2002

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