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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is that the ped is talking to you but not making it clear whether she is identifying a real medical concern that requires action or whether she's just observing his size and saying well, you might try to goose him up the chart by doing XYZ if you want to try it but no harm either way.

It's really a shame that she doesn't know how to be clear because you shouldn't have to exist in a state of uncertainty and resultant anxiety about this.

That would be the reason why I'd think about a different ped. You want someone whose cues to you are not equivocal. [/quote]

If someone is genetically destined to be thin and small, isn't shovelling in extra calories actually harmful? In a nation with rising obesity rates I'm surprised people are still leaning towards pushing more calories. [/quote]

Nope. The baby will spit up what is not needed. The end.

Keep your obesity fears out of this. [/quote]

And new research suggests that newborn feeding practices may have more to do with toddler obesity than experts previously thought.

“We know that we have children with clinical obesity at age two, which makes you more likely to be overweight as a teen and into adulthood,” says Ben Gibbs, a professor of sociology at Brigham Young University. Gibbs co-authored a recent study in the journal "Pediatric Obesity" that found clinical obesity at 24 months was strongly correlated to formula feeding in infancy.

The team studied 8,000 mothers with nine-month-old babies, asking them whether they predominantly breastfed or formula-fed or did both, and then evaluated the child’s weight at age 2. Babies put to bed with a bottle were 30 percent more likely to be obese at age 2. Those fed solid food before four months were 40 percent more likely to become obese.

Gibbs says his research suggests that babies who are mostly bottle-fed don’t always learn how to regulate their appetites the same way as breastfed babies, and that parents may tend to overfeed when they’re looking at a bottle of milk and measuring a baby’s serving in ounces (something a mom doesn’t do when she breastfeeds).[/quote]

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