Interesting point brought up by Barbara, and I concur, I haven't seen any
research that supports the existence of growth spurts at certain times.
However, in practice they do seem to happen.  It's easier maybe to see in
older children - your child eats 2 WeetBix for breakfast every day for
months, then suddenly goes onto 6, which they keep up for a week or so
(just long enough for you to buy the jumbo pack), then they're back to 2
again - and low and behold, thy've grown out of their clothes.
Of more interest maybe is a report on television here just last week about
a woman whose baby has an abnormality of growth hormone, I guess - I didn't
see the beginning of the report.  He is growing incredibly and now at age 3
is four times the size of the average 3yo.  Anyway, one thing she said was
that when she was breastfeeding him, he would just feed all day for several
days and then put on heaps of weight, then would settle down again for a
while, then do it again.  This seems like a case of 'growth spurts'
magnified. (Any other Aussies out there see this report?)
And the classic of course at about 6 weeks when the breasts are switching
from endocrine control to autocrine (therefore not feeling full all the
time) and the baby is feeding heaps (and growing) and the mothers put the
two together and say they don't have enough milk, and wean.

What do others think?
Denise
Brisbane, Australia
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