thread: "You can't over-feed a breastfed baby" - is this evidence-based??

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    Bonbeach, Melbourne
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    There is evidence, I don't have it off the top of my head though. I actually believe I read that on average, breastfed babies are generally leaner than formula fed babies, because the milk is better digested and processed, and that not all of the formula chub is necessary. Do even though a BF bub can be super chubby, it's not 'bad' chub and not 'over' fed itms?

    DD is still exclusively BF, she feeds 1-2 hours around the clock and I don't think I'd class her as particularly big. Her daddy is tall and skinny so she may just be taking after him?
    Last edited by PumpkinZulu; February 8th, 2012 at 11:43 AM.