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6A Daily News – Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Vitality health & fitness When should you give your newborn formula? By Emily Oster, Slate How many days after birth should you wait to give your newborn formula? What signs should you look for? (Getty Images) (ULTRA.F) My book "Expecting Better" stops at the delivery room, but the decisions definitely do not. Here is the first big one I faced not as a pregnant woman but as a new mom. My daughter was born at 7 pounds 12 ounces, and because she arrived first thing in the morning, we got two nights in the hospital. On the second night they took her away for some kind of test, and came back to inform me that she had lost 11 percent of her body weight. Since the hospital's limit was 10 percent, I would have to start giving her formula or — and this is a direct quote — "She might not be able to go home with you." The data-driven part of me thought, "wait a minute, aren't 11 percent and 10 percent basically the same?" The hormonecrazed post-partum mom part thought, "I will do anything under the sun to take my baby home." And so I found myself taping together some kind of elaborate tubing system so Penelope would think she was nursing but really be getting formula. I remember thinking to myself, "I really should research this weight-loss issue." But then they did let me take her home, and I completely forgot about the issue until months later a friend told me that she experienced the same thing. It seems to be a pretty common situation — another friend was told Join us in our mission to support "Think Pink" and help to keep the vital importance of early detection top of mind in Tehama County, all month long! 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In terms of what is normal: Based on one study, the average breastfed baby will lose about 7 percent of his or her body weight in the first three days. Five percent of babies will lose 12 per- cent or more. Formula fed babies lose much less. By drawing the line at 10 percent for encouraging supplementation, as many hospitals do, about 10 percent of breastfed babies will fall below the cutoff (and less than 2 percent of formula-fed babies). Of course, an equally important issue was whether giving some formula early on would impact my ability to successfully breastfeed later. In fact, it seems like the answer is no — this based on one recent randomized trial and one older one. So had I known all of this at 3 a.m. on the day after delivery, what would I have done? I still would have gone ahead with the formula. While 10 percent (or 11 in my child's case) weight loss isn't a real reason to panic, in principle there are serious consequences, and 10 percent is on the high end. 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