To add to Diane Wiessinger's excellent comments on feeding frequency and how she works with Mums who are trying to delay feeds: My little ruse is to suggest to the mother how amazing it is that her baby is going a whole 2 hours (or 30 minutes, or whatever) between feeds, "so soon" after birth, when up till birth s/he was on continuous feed through the umbilical cord and also able to take little practice sips of amniotic fluid at any time. "Isn't your baby amazing to go so long!" I say. It puts a new slant on the same situation. Suddenly, the frequent feeding is not seen as a negative, but as amazing progress from the prenatal stage. I usually package this with other comments about how clever newborns are and what they can do (all evidence-based). For instance, recognising voices from what they heard in utero, recognising the mother's smell, and so on. So the mother sees her baby as clever, not a slow learner who won't conform to perceived patterns. I hope this helps someone. Virginia in sunny Brisbane. PS. I am going NOMAIL today, after enjoying being on Lactnet lately. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html