A few thoughts on scheduling from one of those dinosaurs (I didn't write it
down and how will I ever search the archives!)

1) Vicky, don't feel flamed! You are giving nice concrete advice and new
mothers (who want the truth not all this havey cavey loving stuff) will
thank you for it.

2) As time goes on and they learn their babies' signals better, they may
find that a little milky here and there is an easy thing! (Reminds me of our
thread about the Baby Whisperer or some latest guru- mothers said they were
following her advice and were actually following their own hearts but
telling other people how wonderful "the program" was! Every three hour
nursing probably is every 2 or 2/5 or oops he needs dessert or 4 hrs after a
while)

3) Particularly in Lamaze or breastfeeding class, if moms ask me about how
often babies need to nurse, I can approach it as a cultural phenomenon.
(Thank you Kathy Dettwyler editor of the breastfeeding and anthropology
book....). I tell them that American mothers and babies know that a three
hour schedule is best. And some moms in more rural nurse 24 hours a day. And
many moms would think it was a crazy question as they didn't own a clock.
And do you think Mary told Baby Jesus "not now, it hasn't been three hour!"
They usually laugh --but as noted in 1), new moms want ONLY the FACTS ma'am!
(Back to Reva Rubin, I have to buy that book!)

Dawn Kersula
...who enjoys awakening on the US East Coast to all the discussion from the
West Coast, Australia and Europe!! (and whose husband is on very
adventurous-for-him trip to Eastern Europe to visit my son at the
Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland)

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