{"id":189098,"date":"2017-07-16T18:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/self-feeding-babies-are-no-less-likely-to-be-overweight\/"},"modified":"2017-07-16T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:32:36","slug":"self-feeding-babies-are-no-less-likely-to-be-overweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/self-feeding-babies-are-no-less-likely-to-be-overweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-feeding babies are no less likely to be overweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>The finding contradicts the claim that self-feeding helps appetite regulation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>It also debunks the concern that self-fed babies may have hindered growth\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Self-fed babies are less likely to be fussy eaters than those who are spoon-fed<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Experts stress there is no right way to introduce solid foods to a baby&#8217;s diet<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Look for signs of hunger and fullness, and do not force them to finish their food\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Thompson Health Reporter For Mailonline<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span><br \/>\n  11:15 EDT, 11 July 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span><br \/>\n  11:15 EDT, 11 July 2017<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"share-facebook\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-twitter\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-pinterest\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-gplus\">\n      <span class=\"g-interactivepost\"><br \/>\n        <a><\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-email\">\n<p>                <span class=\"wai\">e-mail<\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-icons\" id=\"shareLinkTop\">\n            <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>     <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"count-number\">           6<\/p>\n<p class=\"count-text\">View <br \/> comments<\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Six-month-old babies who are allowed to pick up their own food and put it in their mouths themselves are just as likely to be overweight, new research reveals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This is compared to youngsters who are spoon-fed by their parents. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The finding contradicts previous claims that youngsters who control how much they eat are better at self-regulating their appetite and are consequently more likely to be a healthy weight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Study authors Anne-Louise Heath and Rachael Taylor from the University of Otago in Dunedin, said: &#8216;It has always been assumed that if babies are allowed to control their own food intake then they will be better at judging when they have &#8220;had enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;So we were surprised that letting babies feed themselves their solids from the start, rather than being spoon-fed by someone else, didn&#8217;t seem to improve their ability to stop eating when they were full.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;And that they were just as likely to become overweight as babies who had been spoon-fed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-24195238ed237464\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Having babies feed themselves does not prevent them from becoming overweight (stock)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-24195238ed237464\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/07\/11\/11\/4237E99600000578-4684762-image-a-38_1499770084927.jpg\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Having babies feed themselves does not prevent them from becoming overweight (stock)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Having babies feed themselves does not prevent them from becoming overweight (stock)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/07\/11\/10\/42375C5700000578-0-image-m-29_1499766385558.jpg\" width=\"62\" height=\"60\" \/><span>Brain dead pregnant woman, 21, was kept alive for 123 days -&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/07\/11\/10\/42375FA200000578-0-image-m-4_1499764927232.jpg\" width=\"62\" height=\"60\" \/><span>Patients whose life-threatening emergency surgeries are&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/07\/11\/09\/4236F75F00000578-0-image-m-54_1499762596745.jpg\" width=\"62\" height=\"60\" \/><span>The teenager who thinks she is 120 DIFFERENT PEOPLE:&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/07\/10\/17\/24A17BBD00000578-0-image-m-19_1499705879073.jpg\" width=\"62\" height=\"60\" \/><span>Health chiefs call for easier English tests for foreign&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mol-factbox-title\">IVF BABIES ARE MORE LIKELY TO GROW UP OVERWEIGHT\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Children born through IVF are more likely to be overweight, a study found earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Experts revealed &#8216;test tube babies&#8217; have their genes altered, with those born through fertility treatment weighing 1\u00bdlb more on average by the age of nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Starting out in a laboratory dish instead of their mother&#8217;s body may cause children to store up more fat \u2013 meaning they could become heavier even when they eat as much as their naturally conceived peers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lead researcher Dr Heleen Zandstra, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said: &#8216;This is enough of a weight difference to be concerning, because overweight children are more likely to become overweight adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We think IVF children may be predisposed to cardiovascular problems, including heart problems, in later life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;They may be programmed wrongly by IVF to store food as fat throughout their lives.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-medium health-ccox mol-style-bold\">How the study was carried out \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Researchers from the University of Otago analysed 206 mothers and their infants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The mothers were recruited into the study during their pregnancy and divided into two groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Those in the first group allowed their babies to feed themselves at six months old &#8211; the generally recommended time to introduce solid foods into youngsters&#8217; diets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The remaining mothers spoon-fed their babies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Most of the mothers in the study exclusively breastfed for the first five-to-six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-medium health-ccox mol-style-bold\">Key findings<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Results revealed no difference in the rates of being overweight between babies in the self-feeding or spoon-fed group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yet, the study did find that babies who self-feed are less likely to be fussy eaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ms Heath and Ms Taylor said: &#8216;It has always been assumed that if babies are allowed to control their own food intake then they will be better at judging when they have &#8220;had enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;So we were surprised that letting babies feed themselves their solids from the start, rather than being spoon-fed by someone else, didn&#8217;t seem to improve their ability to stop eating when they were full.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;And that they were just as likely to become overweight as babies who had been spoon-fed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We were very interested to find that babies following this baby-led approach to introducing solids enjoyed their food more and were less likely to be picky eaters as one-year-olds than babies who had been spoon-fed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;This is particularly interesting because the difference in picky eating was fairly large, even though the families had been randomly assigned to follow this feeding approach with their baby.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The findings were published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8e40a99a250abc76\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Self-feeding babies are less likely to be fussy eaters than those given food off of a spoon\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8e40a99a250abc76\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/07\/11\/11\/4237EB4A00000578-4684762-image-a-53_1499770186155.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Self-feeding babies are less likely to be fussy eaters than those given food off of a spoon\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Self-feeding babies are less likely to be fussy eaters than those given food off of a spoon<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-medium health-ccox mol-style-bold\">Why the research is important <\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The study finding contradicts previous claims that youngsters who control how much they eat are better at self-regulating their appetite and are consequently more likely to be a healthy weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They also debunk a common concern that self-feeding infants may not eat enough to sustain their growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Amy Brown from Swansea University, who was not involved in the study, said: &#8216;There is no one right way to introduce solids to a baby [however]\u00a0this data shows that babies who follow a baby-led approach are consuming sufficient energy and are not at increased risk of underweight which should be reassuring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;What is of central importance is feeding your baby responsively; looking to them for signs of hunger and fullness, and not trying to get them to finish a portion if they do not want to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;This applies whether you are spoon-feeding or letting babies self-feed, and indeed is important during milk feeding and for older children, too.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <!-- ad: http:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v2\/us\/health\/none\/article\/other\/inread_player.html --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"social-links-title\">Share or comment on this article<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bigLinks sc-icns cleared\">\n<li class=\"share-facebook\">\n<p>  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