Chris, you said:  I have to say that the assumption was that
because I was there as a research academic (they didn't realize that I had a
private practice), that my head was in the sand (or somewhere even darker).

I should just say that Dr Davies, whom I was quoting, makes clear that he
does have or has had quite a lot of clinical pratice (the voices of women
come from this).  In the UK only the head of department is usually a
professor, so there are a lot less of them around than in the US.  I didn't
mean to impune the academic research community!!  In fact, I think it is the
idea of Davies, the practitioner as consultant paediatrican who radically
critiques regular weighing of babies in community clinics in the UK who is
most interesting and exciting.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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