The lactation interview was informative. Exclusive breast feeding and not incorporating formula with infant feedings is crucial to early obesity prevention. The infant learns self-satisfaction with breast feeding. The infant will feed until hungry and stop, with bottle feeding the infant will feed until the bottle is taken away. The parents will make a bottle, example 40ml of formula, not wanting to waste the formula due to cost so they tend to “force” the infant to take the entire feeding even if the infant takes part of feeding and stops. The self-satisfaction learned early in life can be seen later with feedings as the toddler eats until full and then stops hopefully leading to a lifetime of eating until full and then stops.
