Nikki, you wrote: >Many mothers who come to me for lactation help are waking their healthy, term babies on some sort of 2 or 3 hour schedule. In my experience, babies that are aroused from deep sleep don't feed well. They latch poorly and are not very responsive. Imagine someone waking you at 2 AM and shoving a sandwich in your face! These mothers are doing it because some hospital staff has impressed upon them that the baby MUST feed every 2 or 3 hours. This was exactly the kind of situation I had in mind when I replied to Renate's post about mothers being told to urinate every 3 hours! I wrote that it was appropriate and effective to encourage mothers to listen to their bodies and to read their babies' cues. We need to teach mothers to use common sense - isn't that a sad commentary? I firmly believe that one of the most important things we do is to give mothers confidence in their own abilities, confidence that has been eroded by well-meaning but misguided *experts*, both medical personnel as well as family and friends. I won't even begin to start talking about the deliberate attempts of formula companies to make mothers think thatbreastfeeding is difficult and that human milk is inferior to a *scientific* formula. warmly, Norma Norma Ritter, IBCLC private practice in Big Flats, NY [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html