Hi All, This has not been a stellar week! I just finished reading BabyWise for my own info to see if it was really that outrageous - it is!. Also this week, I looked through my yearly QA prior to sending it for analysis and a quick perusal noted that our duration rate is falling and moms again stating with increasing frequency that they stopped nursing because they did not have enough milk. Also I found out that a very good friend of mine is using BabyWise and would not dream of talking to me about it as she knows my thoughts on feeding frequency. Her daughter is now a very thin 2 month old, who nurses just 4 times a day. When I point blank asked her how often she was nursing at least she told me the truth and I mentioned that most babies her age would be nursing at least 8 x per day, she never responded. At least she is starting to supplement a little! She happens to attend the largest church congregation in our area with over 1500 weekly attendance and a very large young mother's group who believe this book is awesome. An OB resident with a 5 week old baby born at 35 weeks with birth asphyxia wonders why her baby won't do what the book says and...............a respected local program that offers developmental intervention and counseling recommends this book for their parenting classes. Like I said BAD WEEK. My question is this. Have any of you worked collectively to discourage the use of this book in your respective communitues? Do you folks know that it appears on the AAP webiste as recommmended reading! So, a letter written from our Lactation Center, might not be taken to seriously by many. We do not have a local task force, but perhaps this issue might drive me to spearhead one. We really need to collectively come together and make a statement if we can. I have never read a more biased book that has NO references to speak of and bashes other methods of parenting so openly. Unfortunately, it makes good sense to those who don't know any better! TIA for you comments and suggestions, LuAnn Smith RN, IBCLC, and brand new CIMI! _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com *********************************************** 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