Ok, held my tongue long enough on this issue to everyone around me who has 
brought it to my attention. Seriously, checking BMI at 6 months is 
ridiculous. You are talking about babies who are hardly moving around 
fully yet, structurally under-developed and muscles that are jsut being 
used. If we had checked my sons BMI at 6 months I dont even know what they 
would have found...100% breastfed and a huge rolly poly. I am not talking 
about a roll here and a roll there (those of you who are reading and knew 
Steven understand) he was one big roll after another! Now he will be 2 
next month and as a fellow colleague said when she saw a picture recently 
of him, "I never thought lanky would describe him!"

Breastfed babies get big and then grow and we see it every day! Formula 
babies over the years have shown us they get bigger but not as tall, thus 
maintain so much extra weight. The study made no attempt to circumvent the 
differences between the two at all. Enough on my rant, I am preaching to 
the crowd...just had to get my .02 in since all my formula friends saw 
that and said see BF didnt matter...ahhh ignorance is bliss, maybe that 
should be the new slogan for formula...

Emily Lindsey, BSPsy, CLE
Private Practice
Merced, CA

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