When asked about scheduling I explain what varies a babies interval of feeding:- growth spurts and the need to feed more frequently to increase supply increased feeding during spells of illness, fighting off an infection or as we say being 'under the weather' need for more frequent feeds when there is little distraction eg night when baby gets old enough to be distracted by surroundings in daytime I don't say that a loud high pitched noise which you are unable to stop fulfills the legal definition of torture in this country following a case in the 1970's. A baby on scheduled feeds is programmed by nature to make such a noise whilst awaiting it's next feed. This is because I don't go in for frightening people into putting breastfeeding informaiton into practise. However you all working in lactation might be encouraged by remembering that when you help a mother away from scheduled feeding you are releasing her from what at law would amount to an illegal punishment. Well done Susan Stockwell UK Poole _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. *********************************************** 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