>The DARLING (Davis Area Research in Lactation, Infant Nutrition, and
>Growth) studies found that deceleration of growth velocity in the second
>half of the first year was the rule for their study group of healthy,
>breastfed children.  This series of studies were published in
>Pediatrics, and are available on medline.

And these are the studies where most of the babies fed on a 3-4 hour
schedule from the early days and where most of the babies slept through the
night, in a separate room, from a very early age.  Therefore, they are in
no way representative of how normal human babies grow if fed in the
physiologically appropriate way (on demand, up to several times an hour)
and if sleeping with their mothers and breastfeeding during the night.


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