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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
Hi,
I am breastfeeding Kamron now 5 weeks old today. He gained a pound each week for 3 weeks running, he was nursing almost non-stop! Today I found out he gained 13 ozs, which surprised me, as he has started to sleep for 6 hours a night in his cot, and has started to space out the day feedings. He cluster feeds last thing at night before his big sleep, then cluster feeds in the morning. Kam weighed 7 lbs 9 and a half at birth, born on the 25th percentile, and now weighs 12 lbs and is on the 91st! Do formula fed babes gain weight as well as breastfed babies? . I am just curious! ) -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 4 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
Do formula fed babes gain weight as well as breastfed babies? .
I am just curious! ) Different babies gain at different rates. On average, bf babies tend to gain a little faster than ff babies during the first few months. They then gain a little slower after about 3 months, and the two groups are usually about equal by the end of the first year. But there are individual differences too. Shaina was bf and has always been tiny for her age. (17 pound at one year, about 65 pounds at 11 years.) She has two cousins who were born about two days apart. One was bf and one was ff. Both were, and are, HUGE. They are 18 months younger than Shaina, but I could no longer give my SIL any hand-me-downs by the time the one cousin was 2 months old, because her baby (the ff one) was already as big as Shaina by that age!). Now, Shaina gets hand-me-downs from her. (And again, her more distant bf cousin of exactly the same age is similarly huge. Genetics? Luck? Feeding style? Who knows.) (On an historical note, in the early part of the 20th century, ff babies were usually expected to gain weight much more slowly than bf babies, because, in order to be digestable, the formula had to be made so dilute that the babies simply didn't get enough calories in the early months.) Naomi CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator (either remove spamblock or change address to to e-mail reply.) |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
My SIL has been formula feeding her son since birth (long story and many
complications). He was 7lb 6oz when born and as at 4 weeks old he was 10lb 1oz. He is gaining roughly 1lb per week. He has just been change onto the hungrier baby formula too so we will have to wait and see if this makes any great difference too. Debbie EDD 31/7/03 "andrea" wrote in message ... Hi, I am breastfeeding Kamron now 5 weeks old today. He gained a pound each week for 3 weeks running, he was nursing almost non-stop! Today I found out he gained 13 ozs, which surprised me, as he has started to sleep for 6 hours a night in his cot, and has started to space out the day feedings. He cluster feeds last thing at night before his big sleep, then cluster feeds in the morning. Kam weighed 7 lbs 9 and a half at birth, born on the 25th percentile, and now weighs 12 lbs and is on the 91st! Do formula fed babes gain weight as well as breastfed babies? . I am just curious! ) -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 4 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
In Deb wrote:
My SIL has been formula feeding her son since birth (long story and many complications). He was 7lb 6oz when born and as at 4 weeks old he was 10lb 1oz. He is gaining roughly 1lb per week. He has just been change onto the hungrier baby formula too so we will have to wait and see if this makes any great difference too. What is "hungrier baby formula?" This sounds kind of scary. Meredith |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
Shaina was bf and has always been tiny for her age
BTW, just wanted to add that she seems to take after me. *I* was tiny for my age as a child, always the shortest in my class, and very thin. (And I was formula fed -- the only one among my siblings to be, because my weight gain was so poor that the doc had my mother wean me from the breast after a couple of weeks.) DH was also a scrawny kid. He was FF, and had tons of health problems (asthma, allergies -- he had to be fed on special formulas because he couldn't tolerate any of the standard ones available at the time.) Naomi CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator (either remove spamblock or change address to to e-mail reply.) |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
Meredith writes:
What is "hungrier baby formula?" This sounds kind of scary. Does it eat more babies for breakfast? ;-) --Helen |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
"Chookie" wrote in message
Different babies gain at different rates. On average, bf babies tend to gain a little faster than ff babies during the first few months. They then gain a little slower after about 3 months, and the two groups are usually about equal by the end of the first year. I ave also heard that ff babies tend to put on weight in a linear fashion, whereas bf babies tend to go spurt-plateau-spurt-plateau. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia That makes sense to me, as Kamron was born on the 25th centile, then jumped up to the 91st, and he is now 5 weeks old. He was 7 lbs 9 and a half at birth, and is now 12 pounds. He is already in 3-6 months clothing. -- Andrea mom of - Peter 7, Ellie 5, Alden 3, Joseph 21 mths & little munchie man Kamron 4 weeks! Married to David since 2000. |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
"Meredith Edwards-Cornwall" wrote What is "hungrier baby formula?" This sounds kind of scary. I posted about it a couple of months ago. It's casein based formula, rather than whey based, so all it does is sit in the baby's stomach for longer while it "digests". But baby goes for longer between feeds and takes less at a time, so that's OK. Jean -- "And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you." Khalil Gibran Return address is unread. Replies to firstnamelastname @eircom.net. |
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Weight gain in breastfed babies V formula fed babies
In H Schinske wrote:
Meredith writes: What is "hungrier baby formula?" This sounds kind of scary. Does it eat more babies for breakfast? ;-) --Helen LOL! That's what I was thinking! Yikes! Meredith |
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