My experience is that a child that is carried a lot and has easy access 
to the breast, doesn't cry much. My  youngest  (now 6 months) cries when 
I try to change his clothes or put a diaper on him (he prefers to be 
naked). Being dresses or changed is not something that will happen a lot 
to a !Kung baby.

He cries he falls over hard when crawling or standing up. I suppose our 
tile floors are harder then the Kalahari sands :-)

He only cries in my arms when he has a high fever and probably a 
headache. He nurses several times each hour, unless he is sleeping a 
long stretch (no more then 2-3 hours at night).

Of course he cries when he gets tired at the daycare center. He doesn't 
really know how to fall asleep without me. When he gets tired and cannot 
be consoled, I get a call to come to the daycare center to nurse him to 
sleep. Luckily I work only two mornings a week and work at an easy walk 
from the daycare center.

When a child nurses many times a day, the breasts are never really full, 
and the milk has a high fat content at the start of the feed. Such feeds 
may last from a few seconds to half a hour.

Roosje van Gorp
LLL Leader
Maastricht

The Netherlands
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> Now, I have many questions that I have no true answer for.  Why is it that the Kung tribe is reported to feed their babies some 20 times per day -- and their babies reportedly never cry?  Yet this is in direct contradiction to all of our obsession with "oversupply" and "foremilk/hindmilk" imbalance.  Could it be that the longer stretches we make our infants wait for feeds then sometimes creates an "apparent" oversupply because the poor baby has been trained to wait longer and then has to cope with that very fast flow that overwhelms that baby -- to then be trained into waiting a longer stretch for another surge?  Or is it merely the being carried on the back continually?   Who truly has done anything other than speculate about these issues?  Why isn't someone actually FUNDING research on what all this sleep training does to the feeding relationship, obesity, night terrors, etc?  I always think of the orphanage studies that show that the most insecure adults are those that had the least contact as infants and learned to not cry when they needed to.
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