I know firsthand of a baby who was getting alternate feeds of formula
and fresh, donated milk.  Sometimes her bedtime bottle was formula
and sometimes it was ebm.  She behaved exactly the same, regardless
-- ate the same amount, slept the same, etc.  Her parents did say she
seemed generally happier after the ebm bottles though.

It may be a fine point, but "digested more quickly" does not
necessarily mean "baby  hungry sooner," does it?  I would think that
even though ebm may leave the stomach faster, the perfect balance of
nutrients in ebm might satisfy the baby just as long (talking about
*bottles* of ebm vs. formula here -- certainly feeding at the breast
involves different dynamics).

Margaret
Longmont, CO



>A mother called me just this week and told me she was weaning her
>baby, because she and her husband had decided to put her baby on a
>schedule and knew that "formula takes longer to digest than breast
>milk."  She also told me she did not want to give her baby any of
>the breast milk she had pumped during
>weaning because her baby might want to feed sooner than the schedule
>allowed (!!!)

<snip>
>Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC
>Chicago suburbs, Illinois, USA
>where we got our first sprinkling of snow unusually early and the
>weather is crisp and cold

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