Chloe is the angel that sits on my shoulder at every consult ("What would Chloe do here?") I have 5 copies of her book that I loan to clients. Her positioning ideas are the ones that work best for me. And yet... Am I right in thinking that Chloe has no children of her own? I've seen babies who weren't nursing well finally get a good latch, pig out, fall off in a stupor and sleep blissfully for several hours, for the first time in their lives. I wonder if this is the kind of situation Chloe sees over and over: babies who have finally gotten a bellyful and slide off to contemplate it at length. My own babies, who lacked neither for milk nor talent in extracting it, nursed for umpteen reasons besides hunger and thirst, and I couldn't begin to count the number per day. Besides, is the "feeding" that took place on one breast, to be followed 10 minutes later by a quick snack on the other side two "feedings" or one? I would never have known where to draw the line. I finally realized that I never "fed" my babies. They nursed for so many other reasons - theirs and mine - that outright hunger was probably rarely an issue. So, although Chloe is my patron saint, I mightn't take her word for how many times a day a real-life, 24 hour a day baby nurses in a family with other children, dogs, car pools, cooking, housework, and phone calls. At our house it was probably more like 30 or 40. Who knows? Who cares? As someone else said, look at the whole picture and make sure the baby is getting what he needs, then support whatever pattern mother/baby/family seem to need. Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL, Ithaca, NY