Phyllis |Harris wrote,
>    If we were drinking all our calories we wouldn't be hungry either.
>I would suggest taking one night feeding away at at time to slow the
>production slowly.  Then mom could start soft foods when the child gets

>hungry.  You might suggest serving water in night time so teeth won't
>have  sugar all night & to take care of thirst.  A nice sports bottle
>next to the bed could serve the purpose nicely.  When the calories from

>breast milk begin to decrease the solids calories will increase.

I have an almost non-eating toddler (well, only 11 mo but I think the
principle still applies)
who feeds often during the night.
If I were to try limiting the number of feeds,
then i would be up trying to comfort him back to sleep without the aid of a
breast, and that would take so much longer. I would be more sleep-deprived
and more stressed, and short of having a baby sobbing himself to sleep,
probably wouldn't change anything - certainly not the eating.
Sometimes sleep programmes do work, IMHO, but the parents have to be very
sure they are ready for the stress and tension that goes with this approach,
and I wonder whether a happy, healthy toddler whose only "difficulty" is not
eating should be "cured" like this. Is the child anaemic or underweight?

Fiona Hermann
midwife
Hamilton
New Zealand

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