I dunno -- you have a lot more experience with this bfc thing than I have.

But I know that among my little slice of the population, a lot more mothers
have weaned from non-numerical troubles that a few good numbers would have
helped, than the reverse.

So for example I hear "he just didn't seem satisfied" from mothers who didn't
know that 10 feeds a day is perfectly normal; or "he was happy and behaving
normally, but at his checkup the doctor said he hadn't grown enough" from
parents who thought 4 wets and 1 poop ought to be adequate was normal output;
and so on.

These (mostly highly educated) moms do have an intuition about bf that they
should watch their babies not the clock, that it is natural, that it is
healthy -- but they have no clue about the numbers that these intuitions are
supposed to represent, or maybe I should say to embed.

I'm thinking that this may really be something that varies with the
population we're trying to educate.

This reminds me:  I am putting together a one-evening class on bf for
pregnant women of exactly the type I describe above -- who know they want to
bf and are impatient with the generalities they think they are going to hear
in other classes (OK, for intellectual snobs -- what can I say, academia is
the country of my heart :D ).  So the curriculum has to be simultaneously
specific, cognitive, and sophisticated -- but also basic, fundamental and
mom-oriented.   If anyone out there would be willing to run her or his eye
over it and comment, I'd be grateful -- it's a couple of pages of outline,
easy to email if you can get attachments or to fax if that's easier.

TIA!

Elisheva Urbas

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