# I'm trying to find an article which states that babies need night
feedings, and that they receive even at 10 months old about 25% of
their milk intake during the night. #

*I think this piece of information is mentionded either in the Politics
of Breastfeeding (by Gabrielle Palmer) OR in the Milk, Money and
Madness (by Baumslag and Michels), but I don't have those books at
hand right now so I could check whose article it is. The babies in
this study were from Ghana.*

I have been following this thread since I am working on a presentation on 
this topic. Someone posted that it was in the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding 
7th Ed - and on page 99 it does reference this statement to Jellifffe & 
Jelliffe's book "Human Milk in the Modern World" 1979. In this book it 
states on page 60 - "in traditional cultures the baby sleeps by the mother's 
side and must obtain considerable quantities as "night feedings" (Omolulu, 
1975)"
Omolulu, A (1972) Children in the Tropics 82, 19. Breast feeding in Nigeria, 
1974, Information Packet for WHO Day, WHO Geneva. ( I tried searching for 
this on the WHO website but haven't found it)

In Milk, Money and Madness, page 31 - it states, with no reference, "infants 
consume one third of their daily calories during night feedings"

So that's it so far,
Maureen Fjeld, IBCLC, RLC
Calgary, Alberta

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