Bottle feeding = 120 Mars bars by 8 months

[MrsDoolittle]

OOoer

[Spidermama]

Uh oh!

[hulababy]

Hmmmm. I bottle fed from 6 weeks (mixed from 2 weeks) for many reasons. She would down full bottles of formula several times a day. However, my DD has never been remotely chubby at all. She has always been way too active to put on that much weight TBH. Even now, age 4yo, she is a very active, healthy looking, slim litttle girl.


Looks like just another "bottle v breast" debate sparking articles to me. Recently we had the anti breast feeding ones int he press. Not it is time for an anti formual one ....and so it goes on!

[suzi2]

I'm not worried - my DS will be fine then! And I must remember and blame my mother for my chubbiness since she started mixed feeding when I was 4 months

[goldendelicious]

Second that hulababy - and i'm outta here before it kicks off!!!

[pointydog]

Who is Barbieri? What research is her article based on? How do we know she's writing the truth?

[nearlythree]

Sorry, I am very touchy on the ffeeding/bfeeding thing but this made me laugh.

[harpsichordcarrier]

I have said it before and will say it again - WHY WHY WHY aren't articles like this properly referenced?!?!?!? I mean there is NO bloody excuse.
it is an interesting article and concept but not possible to comment unless you can see the research

[Serah]

Good point Harpsi, but in principle and as a bottle feeder I agree with the concept of the article... (....having thought about bottle feeding related stuff for quite some time. Can't reference my thoughts admittedly, but then again I would never look for them to be published as fact)

[fistfullofnappies]

yeah, my problem was, I ate the 120 mars bars (or equivalent) though, so I didnt lose the weight

[Bugsy2]

Argh, that is not journalism - it is speculation!!! Milk gushed out of my tits, literally gushed - so how does overfeeding work in those instances???????
Formula compared to Mars Bars is so factually corrupt. DD had more formula than DS & she was tiny, put on less weight & continues to be a significantly more skinny child than DS. This is not a factual argument it is just my experience, but without any referencing by a journalist - my experiences are just as valid.
Silly article - almost pointless & yet it could have been so good.

[MrsDoolittle]

fistfullofnappies

[pointydog]

Barbieri - an award-winning beauty writer and consumer journalist. Yaasss.

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

Agree harpsi....

[Serah]

Oh, have to come back and agee with Bugsy... comparing formula with a Mars bar is the kind of evangelism reserved for the holy few.
So many articles on both breast and bottle feeding could have reach so many more, but are restricted due to their sensationalist nature...which is at best a shame.

[littlepiggie]

I think it could have been put a lot better. I dont think this has anything to do with bf or ff feeding but demand feeding or try to get a baby to finish a bottle. I bf and sil ff feeds we both feed on demand, when her dd has had enough, she puts the bottle down till she wants more.
So maybe there point should have been baby led or parent led, and not bf v ff.

[sweetkitty]

I agree with littlepiggie in that the article does have interesting points but using the Mars Bars anology to shock it kind of loses it's way somewhat.

I do think people (especially of our mothers generation) get really hung up when bottle feeding a baby that they must take that 8ozs or whatever is in the bottle. The constant stopping and tipping the bottle back up to look at what a babies drunk then shoving it back in their mouth makes me sad. Do adults always eat the exact same amount at every feed? I think in this way bfing is better as the baby itself regulates the feed, sometimes it's a long feed sometimes a snack sometimes 4 hours between feeds sometimes an hour. I feel sad for the regulation every 4 hours baby gets a 8ozs bottle no matter what and it's a major thing to get him to finish the bottle as if it's a goal. Same with spooning puree in until it all must be finished.

[moondog]

Mars bar thing silly and detracts from main point which is that breast fed babies self regulate intake.

[hulababy]

But that parent led feeding happens with breast feeding too. It was really commin to feed every 4 hours for a certain length of time, at one time - regardless of method.

I suspect many people who bottle feed now just do demand fed like with breast feeding - as that is what is more recommended now.

[littlepiggie]

not all ff feeders feed every 4 hour like it or not, and some bf feed to a set time, so what happens to these babies? do they grow two heads or somthing?

[Joolstoo]

Annalisa Barbieri - f*ck, rant, bollocks, rant go shove a mars bar up yer ass!

[Surfermum]

I bottle fed. I fed her when she was hungry, roughly every 4 hours, but I took her cue. Sometimes she got hungry earlier, sometimes she'd go longer. There was no way I could have forced more milk into her than she wanted, she would push the bottle out of her mouth with her tongue. She was the same when she was weaned, she knew when she'd had enough and told me so by turning her head away.

[moondog]

JT!!

You have become shockingly low brow!

[sweetkitty]

surfermum - sorry I was talking mostly about people I know who see it as a goal to get that 8ozs down their babies mouths.

I know in the past it was regimented every 4 hours breast or bottle and on the breast it was like 10 minutes one side then 10 the next or something like that.

Thankfully we have moved on from those regimented routines and take cues from the babies themselves.

[nearlythree]

My ffeeding ds gets fed when he's hungry, and stops when he's had enough. I do usually change him and try again if he's only had a tiny bit as he's really fussy about being wet. My bfed dd2 fed and fed for months - she didn't even focus on my face until she was four mo and I am sure it was because she spent virtually her whole waking hours looking at my arm as she scoffed. She came out looking like a chicken, and still looks like a chicken. Ds came out looking like Mitchelin man, and so far he's only adding to it.

[sweetkitty]

I have 2 DDs 18 months apart and 2 1/2lbs between them! Both have been BF on demand and both completely different in height/weight/speed and number of feeds. I think DD2 must have secretly had those 120 Mars Bars!