> >His garbage is old, old garbage. In fact, he got a lot of his info from "My >First 300 Babies" by (I think) Gladys Hendricks (not sure -- it's here >somewhere, but I can't find it right now). Now THAT book, will make your >hair curl (or fall out, as the case may be). Hey - that sounds like my sorta reading!! It's interesting, because my current non-fave author Gina Ford (see previous posts) has as part of her publicity blurb that she is a maternity nurse who 'has cared for' (bluuurgh!) 'over 300 babies and children in her 20 year career'. Isn't that a cute co-incidence??? One of my colleagues pointed out that she can't have 'cared for' them for very long.....do the maths, and remember that a large number of them would not have been breastfed, either at all or any longer, and the experience that allows her to recommend her preposterous scheduling starts to look thinner and thinner. I think some of her 300 babies and children were ones she merely babysat for, truly. Anyway, our research-based bf literature amounts to many, many thousands of babies by now. Heather Welford Neil NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne *********************************************** 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