Great examples from others here, this is a fun thread. When doing the BF group teaching on our ward, I go through baby's hunger cues, pointing out that only the last two, the 'mammalian distress call' (short, high-pitched "uh -uh- uh" sounds) and crying, make any noise. I describe waking, looking about, mouthing hands, licking them, drooling, rooting, moving toward a possible breast, calling and crying. I say that because babies are programmed to survive, they do whatever works, and if they discover that *only* crying results in being fed, it doesn't take them long to drop all the polite foreplay and cut to the chase, as it were, crying insistently as soon as they feel the slightest bit hungry. This seems to make the lightbulbs go on over most parents' heads, especially when I ask them if they think a meal tastes better if they have been so hungry that they cried, before they got to eat. Rachel Myr Kristiansand, Norway, where the story about how life-threatening it is to share a bed with a baby has just hit the news today, ugh. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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