Hi all-
For the past 4.5 years, I've been going with the theory that a healthy mother of a
full-term, healthy baby should attempt to nurse 10-14 times in a 24 hour period.
Sometimes both parties will sleep through, or baby will be uncooperative, but if
you attempt it, you'll probably get the bare-minimum 8 nursings per day. This is
to continue UNTIL THE BABY'S FIRST NOTICEABLE GROWTH SPURT, usually around 3 weeks
of age, at which time (yippee! congratulations! Mazel Tov!) feeding on cue/demand
is the new way to go.
Why have I been going with this theory? Well, for no better reason than a really
smart, capable, helpful and friendly LC told me to do this with my baby, and it
worked. It's interesting to see the debate on this, and I thought I would pipe in
with the growth spurt thing as I've not seen it mentioned yet.
Natalie Rawlings Kraut
LLL Leader, Plantation, FL
Area Conference Supervisor, LLL-FL
Book Evaluation Committee, LLLI
mother to Emily, just over 4.5 years
who is kinda sleepy herself...
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