Teresa's speculation about one of the reasons -- let's see if I can do this, Teresa -- that frequent breastfeeding is biologically normal is that > perhaps more stimulation of the brain > in > the process of coming to the breast repeatedly; > I remember being struck that a baby's vision is clearest at that distance between the breast and the mother's eye, and then reading about the importance of the gaze. I wonder if the memory span of a baby is about as long as the period between nursing? Then a baby would truly nurse whenever s/he remembered to do so. It makes sense, and I kind of like the idea. I, too, really liked Kathy D's post. It particularly reminded me of a visit to a friend's place with tiny twins. A mother who had breastfed her children twenty years before, she asked, "Why didn't I hear them in the next room? Surely they're not sleeping through the night yet!" I realized that, just as in a story Teresa once told at a conference about a breastfed baby with heart problems, that they had never really cried at night. (Not like my toddler, who no longer remembers how to cuddle-to-sleep-nurse -- boredom-nurse, cranky-nurse, lie-in-nurse, yes, but not back-to-sleep nurse... any suggestions?) Jo-Anne *********************************************** 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