>
>
>- The nurse would bring the baby to mom every four hours at 2AM, 6AM,
>10AM,
>2PM, 6PM and 10PM.
>- She should nurse 2 minutes the first day and increase a minute each
>day up
>to 10 minutes per breast"


This was absolutely standard advice in UK maternity units until well
into the 1980s...though we did have rooming in as a routine in many
places by then, often with exceptions though (for the first 1-2
nights, when babies were taken to the nursery unless you asked staff
not to - and often fed formula). Mothers were told to feed every four
hours or for a smaller baby, every 3 hours. This advice was still in
a few midwifery text books and books for mothers within the last 10
years, and a version of it is in newer books, too, of the new 'babies
should be fed to a routine' school.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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