Jackie says,
The -"6-hour must eat"- is just as arbitrary as the time when hospitals were
not feeding newborns for the first 24 hours.I haven't looked that one up
lately, but I remember reading about it in some historical context in the in
the US in the '50s? '60s? Anyone remember hearing about it, reading about
it?>>Oh my goodness, Jackie -- that's what we did in nursing school in the (mumble mumble) 60's.  Babies were kept in the nursery, swaddled, held up to the window for their admiring visitors and NOT FED for 24 hours.  Nothing -- no water, no formula, no breastmilk (heaven forbid), no nothing.  And somehow my generation was able to put men on the moon, invent the computer, the internet -- you name it.  My own daughter was kept NPO for 12 hours, was given water at that point, and finally brought out to me to breastfeed at 16 hours.  She will be 44 next month, and managed to become a Family Nurse Practitioner despite being "starved" for 16 hours after birth.  Amazing.Unless you were born at home, chances are that if you are over 50 you weren't fed for 24 hours....Fast forward 4 years to when my second daughter was born -- same hospital -- I nursed her in the delivery room.  What an amazing change in only 4 years!!Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCAWheaton ILLactation Education Consultants

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