OK, here it goes, I am going out on a limb here, and am willing to accept
the slams to explain another personal point of view.  I am a breastfeeding
mother of 10 month old triplets.  My triplets were born at 33 +2 weeks
through a vaginal delivery with an epidural and the boys came home at 2
weeks and my daughter came home at 3 weeks.  I had a great milk supply, and
was exclusively nursing the boys and nursing my daughter some with
expressed milk in a bottle at other times.  She had classic nipple
confusion that never fully turned around.  At two months, I was a mess.  I
was demand feeding the babies and I was exhausted.  They were waking at
1:00, 1:15, 1:30, 1:45, 2:30am, etc, etc.  Because I was breastfeeding, no
one could help me out at night.  I was horribly sleep deprived, my supply
was dropping, and even with my strong conviction about breastfeeding, I was
ready to call it quits.  Someone mentioned the Babywise book to me, and out
of desperation, I read it.  I started feeding my babies every three hours
during the day, and they naturally started sleeping more and more at night.
 Once I was able to get 4 or 5 solid hours of sleep at night, my milk
supply returned, my sanity returned and commitment to breastfeedng
returned.  I've never let my babies cry for more than 10 minutes, we use
infant carriers around the house.  My babies are healthy, loved more than
life itself, and thriving.

I think as one writer put it, there are many types of Mothers and many
different situations.  My husband and I have found that it works best to
read many different parenting philosophies and choose the ones that work
best for your family.  This is what I tell my parents in the classes I
teach.  Also of interest, in the Babywise book, it talks about "Signs of
Adequate Nutrition."  They tell the parents that the baby should have six
to eight wet diapers a day, some saturated, your baby has a strong suck,
you see milk, and you can hear an audible swallow, etc, and they tell
parents to immediately contact their pediatrician if the baby is not
getting minimum of seven feedings a day, does not have appropriate wet
diapers,  has a weak, tired suck, etc, etc.

I do not advocate everything they say and have very little use for the book
Babywise II, but their ideas on scheduling multiple infants (either Ezzo or
Bucknam have triplets and there is a special chapter about multiple) saved
my ability to breastfeed my babies, and isn't that what we're all trying to
do here.

Anne Nans, RN, IBCLC
Woodbridge, VA

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