Not quite what you were asking for but not far off...
Karleen Gribble
Australia


Li, R., S. B. Fein, et al. (2008). "Association of breastfeeding intensity 
and bottle-emptying behaviors at early infancy with infants' risk for excess 
weight at late infancy." Pediatrics 122 Suppl 2: S77-84.

OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to test the hypothesis that infants who were 
breastfed more intensively during early infancy (< or = 6 months) will be 
less likely to have excess weight during late infancy (> 6 months) and to 
examine the independent impact of infant-initiated bottle emptying and 
mothers' encouragement of bottle emptying on infants' risk for excess 
weight. METHOD: The sample consisted of 1896 mothers who participated in 
postpartum surveys of the Infant Feeding Practice Study II and who provided 
at least 1 weight measurement of their infants during the second half of 
infancy. We used multiple logistic regression models to assess the 
association between infants' risks for excess weight during the second half 
of infancy and 3 self-reported feeding practices during the first half of 
infancy after adjusting for a series of sociodemographic characteristics. 
The early feeding practices examined included the percentage of all milk 
feedings in which infants consumed breast milk (breastfeeding intensity), 
the frequency of bottle feedings in which infants initiated bottle emptying, 
and the frequency of bottle feedings in which mothers encouraged bottle 
emptying. RESULTS: Infants fed with low (< 20% of milk feeds being breast 
milk) and medium (20%-80%) breastfeeding intensity in the first half of 
infancy were at least 2 times more likely to have excess weight during the 
second half of infancy than those breastfed at high intensity (> 80%). 
Infants who often emptied bottles in early infancy were 69% more likely than 
those who rarely emptied bottles to have excess weight during late infancy. 
However, mothers' encouragement of bottle emptying was negatively associated 
with their infants' risk for excess weight during the second half of 
infancy. CONCLUSIONS: Infants' risk for excess weight during late infancy 
was negatively associated with breastfeeding intensity but positively 
associated with infant-initiated bottle emptying during early infancy. These 
findings not only provide evidence for the potential risk of not 
breastfeeding or breastfeeding at a low intensity in development of 
childhood obesity, but they also suggest that infant-initiated bottle 
emptying may be an independent risk factor as well.



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Subject: Formula overfeeding and obesity


>>
> I am so curious about the relationship between chronic over feeding of 
> formula, from birth,
> and the rate of obesity in the US. I cannot dismiss the potential 
> relationship between setting
> the satiety center from birth to be the equivalent of eating at the Las 
> Vegas buffet (and oh I
> love those, but when I go, I eat one time a day!), every meal, 8-12 times 
> a day and our rate of
> obesity.
>
> Parents simply do not know what the normal feed volume is for a newborn 
> (until we provide
> the education!) :)
>
>
>
> I would love to see some research on this topic.
>
> Michelle H. Kinne ICCE CD(DONA) CLE
> www.DoulaDiva.org
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