"So a baby that is bottle feed EMM would have just a great of a tendency
to become obese as a baby on formula???"

I don't think that could be true because the ramifications of
overfeeding breastmilk are not as serious as overfeeding powdered milk.

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?

Meg Kingsley

Lay Breastfeeding Supporter, Dubai UAE

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