Elisheva's comment about the body knowing how to quit a feed at a
certain regular time is exactly how the body knows when it "expects to
feed" at a regular hour, so why is the opposite so surprising?  If I
were away from home for a couple of hours alone and then had a letdown,
I would call home and ask my husband if the baby had awakened.  He's go
to the cradle and and check and say "Yep."  So, I'd come home to feed.
We were always in synch!
Judy Ritchie

"My problem is that it does not accord with my experience!    For myself
in several weanings, and for every mother I've spoken with about this,
it really does go by time of day:   skip a given feeding -- any one
feeding -- every day, and at THAT hour your breast will be [relatively
of course] empty.  That's why so many mothers manage to give up bf, even
not pumping, during their work days, but still nurse at night; why
plenty give up night feedings and are no more overfull in the a.m. than
they were when the baby nursed three times between dinner and breakfast,
etc etc."

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