This is just EZZO with a new name! I agree "Hogg"wash. Chris
In a message dated 2/10/01 8:39:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> ASK TRACY
>
> Have questions or comments?
>
> Send us your questions between February 5, 2001 and March 6, 2001 and each
> week author Tracy Hogg will address the five most-asked-about topics.
>
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> ***
> If you have questions or comments on the evidence her breastfeeding advice
> is based on or anything else, you may feel compelled to write.
>
> The site is disturbing. Lots of talk about respecting your baby, and things
> that contradict it. She has a major issue with "on-demand feeding." Here's
> an excerpt from the site:
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> The E.A.S.Y. Regimen For Babies From Birth to Three Months as detailed in
> SECRETS OF THE BABY WHISPERER
> How To Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
>
> E.A.S.Y. is an acronym for the structured routine that Tracy Hogg
> establishes with all her babies, ideally from Day One. It is central to her
> whole-family approach, because it ensures that every member's needs are
met,
> not just the baby's. Tracy suggests thinking of E.A.S.Y. as a recurring
> period, more or less three hours long, in which each of the following
> segments occur in this order:
>
> E - Eating - 25 to 40 minutes, on breast or bottle; a normal baby weighing
> six pounds or more can go 2 to 3 hours to the next feed.
>
> Whether your baby is breast- or bottle-fed, nutrition is his or her primary
> need. Babies are little eating machines. Relative to their body weight,
they
> eat two to three times the calories of an obese person.
>
> A - Activity - 45 minutes (includes playtime, diapering, dressing, and a
> relaxing massage and bath.)
>
> Before the age of three months, babies will probably be eating and sleeping
> 70% of the time. When they're not, they'll be on the changing table, in the
> tub, cooing in their crib or lying on a blanket, in their carriage for a
> stroll, looking out the window from their infant seat. Doesn't sound like
> much "activity" from our perspective, but it's what babies do.
>
> S - Sleeping - 15 minutes to fall asleep; _ to an hour nap; will go for
> progressively longer periods through the night after the first two or three
> weeks.
>
> Whether they sleep like a dream, or in fits and starts, all babies need to
> learn how to get themselves to sleep.
>
> Y - You - An hour or more for you when the baby is asleep; this time is
> extended as baby gets older, takes less time to eat, plays independently,
> and takes longer naps.
>
> After all is said and done--that is, when Baby sleeps--it's your turn.
Sound
> impossible or unreasonable? It's not. If you follow the E.A.S.Y. program,
> every few hours, there will be "you" time to rest, rejuvenate, and, once
> you've started to heal, to get things done. Remember that in the first six
> weeks--the post-partum period--you need to recover physically and
> emotionally from the trauma of childbirth. Mothers who try to rush back to
> life as they once knew it, or whose "on demand" feeding schedules don't
> allow them any time to rest, pay the piper later on.
>
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