Harvey you wrote,  "Yes, crying is a very late cue for breastfeeding, but
most parents don't want to use early cues of hunger during the night.  They
want to wait
until the baby is good and hungry so they eat a little more milk a
little less often."

This belief that most parents don't want to use early cues of hunger during
the night is based on what research?  How does one know what parents want or
don't want?  Or is this an assumption you are making based on personal
experience?  Isn't this belief based on giving comfort to parents and not to
infants?  And is the reason we give parents comfort first before their
infants because adults need uninterrupted sleep?

As someone who has parented two teens and one getting close to pre-teen, I
must say I get a heck of alot of less sleep than I ever did when they were
babies.  Also as someone who has an older cat and dog, I find myself up and
down many times during the night letting them in and out.  So I find the idea
of the sanctity of sleep amusing as all get out.  I believe that my babies
actually prepared me very gently for life as I have gotten older;  where
uninterrupted sleep seems to be the domain of people who write parenting
books.  Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC





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