Pat in SNJ, I've so enjoyed your stories.  I do have to add  mine.  I was 
born in 1946.  My baby book, from Better Homes and  Gardens, was dutifully 
filled out by my mother with more things than anyone ever  wants to know up 
until 4th grade....believe it or not.  Anyway, my feeding  schedule was 
10-2-6-10-2-6-10.  No deviation.  The book even had a  section for "baby cried 
from _______ to ______"  That was an  expectation.  Mother was in the hospital 
for 10 days, came home, tried to  breastfeed for another couple of days, but 
I cried so much (and, by the way, it  was one breast only per feed....) she 
gave formula.  And cereal at 2 weeks  because that is what the Dr. 
recommended.  (I found a book my pediatrician  wrote published in 1971.  He was 
still advocating cereal at 2 weeks  then!!!!).  I probably have a brain full of 
arsenic, now that I've read  that article!!)
 
We were missionaries, and my parents went to China when I was 18 months old 
 -- evacuated in 1949 and moved to Australia.  There is where my mother  
learned how to breastfeed (though she still believed in schedules and  
cereal.....).  She breastfed my sister for 6 months, my brother for 9, and  my 
youngest sister for 12.  Three guesses as to who is the most intelligent  of the 
sibs!!
 
Two of my personal accomplishments that make me feel as though I've come  
full circle:
 
Speaking at the first ALCA (Australian Lactation Consultant Association  
Conference) in Canberra in 1992, and writing the section on breastfeeding for  
the new Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book.....
 
Jan  

 



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