Dear Jan, 

What a nice surprise to find you here.  Remember me (Pat in Cape  
Town from ICEA days?)  I am so glad that people are addressing the  
Ferber issue.  His theory has spawned a lot of books, including a South  
African one called "Baby Sense" which has been flying off the  
bookshelves here for years.  It also contains enough misinformation on  
breastfeeding to make sure that babies don't thrive and that  
breastfeeding is terminated as early as possible. 

You wrote: 
Thinking back over many years, as I do, it's not unheard of for some 
well known 'experts' to change their views, and the realist, and cynic 
in me, wonders whether in this electronic age, people like Richard 
Ferber have responded to the power of the internet or... perhaps he has 
been persuaded by research, and perhaps he's softened with age... or a 
combination of them all.  (End quote). 

It probably is a combination of them all.  For whatever reason, we at  
least have some ammunition now.  In October, a South African  
parenting magazine quoted me in the editorial, as having said that  
Ferber had "apologised" but pointing out that sadly "books sell, but  
apologies don't".  (I was unaware that he had written a new book and  
am happy to note it, for whatever reason.) 

I am also happy to see on the internet that you are marketing Nils  
Bergmans's video, "Kangaroo Mother Care: Restoring the Original  
Paradigm for Infant Care and Breastfeeding".  Nils' work is hugely  
important for the understanding of the physical and emotional wellbeing  
of babies. 

I have some articles on it up on the internet.  (I hope talking about this  
is not off topic).  They are at: 

www.primal-page.com/bergman.htm
www.primal-page.com/patparent.htm

At the moment they are up in English, German and Spanish, and  
Afrikaans and Xhosa translations are hopefully underway.  I am looking  
for people to help with translations into French, Portuguese, Italian,  
Swedish, any other African languages, etc.  The articles are not  
exclusively about breastfeeding, but it is an important issue in both. 

Warm wishes, 
Pat Torngren 

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