That doesn't sound bad when taken by itself. Infants, however, are interesting things. They may be sponges, but if I've learned anything in the last couple of y

That doesn't sound bad when taken by itself. Infants, however, are interesting things. They may be sponges, but if I've learned anything in the last couple of years since my wife and I had our first child, it's that their development occurs in weird, non-linear ways, and requires a lot of effort and practice on their part. Stressing them out severly can (and does) impair development. Aside from that, I suspect I know what condition the original commenter is talking about--or at least my wife and I had a child who, at roughly 5 weeks, was given an almost identical choice for a condition he had. This particular condition is such that food either cannot pass out of the stomach into the intestine, or can only do so in quantities insufficient to provide adequate nutrition. It comes with a variety of nasty side effects, such as severe projectile vomiting when the stomach-digested food accumulates (hence the "carefully measured feedings") that, long term, will also damage the esophagus. I can only speculate about the kinds of developmental problems an infant may incur when he is stressed out over basic sustenance for the first weeks or months of key developmental milestones, but to me the choice was a no-brainer for the surgical option. I would do it again, even given this study, without hesitation.