UGH! I just hate hearing this phrase.  The other one I also hate and  
hear
often at my WIC office is "greedy" baby.

Ilene Fabisch, IBCLC/RLC, LLLL



Date:    Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:03:23 +0200
From:    Marianne Vanderveen-Kolkena <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Lazy babies - pet peeve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaye Simpson, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>

When a parent tells me they have a lazy baby I gently counsel that their
baby hasn't yet learned how to be lazy and that lazy implies that the  
baby
is doing something purposely which is not the case.  Babies are  
designed to
eat and to feed and when they can't (or appear to not want to) then
something is wrong.  Perhaps someday we will stop labeling babies who  
have
issues as 'Lazy feeders' or 'lazy' in any way.

**Very good, Jaye. I, too, make an issue of explaining parents (ánd  
HCP's if
necessary) that babies aren't lazy.
Not that long ago, I had a childbed nurse on the phone asking whether I
could help, as they had such and such problem and besides all that,  
the baby
was lazy.

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