Marit Olanders <[log in to unmask]> said:
> The way she remembers it  now, it was said that the 4 h breastfeeding scedule emerged because four hours were the longest intervals the mothers could be separated from their babies for  work that the babies survived.<

I heard a different version.
The way I heard it, the four hour schedule can be blamed (loosely!) on
the British military system :)
When Florence Nightingale started to organise hospital nurses in the
19th century, she did so under British military conditions. This
eventually translated into eight hour shifts. Nurses were instructed
to make sure that babies were fed twice during each shift, which meant
at four hour intervals. This was purely for the convenience of the
staff and bore no relationship to the needs of the babies.

Norma Ritter, IBCLC, RLC
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