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Marit Olanders <[log in to unmask]> said:
# The way she remembers it  now, it was said that the 4 h
breastfeeding scedule emerged because four hours were the longest
intervals the mothers could be separated from their babies for  work
that the babies survived. #

2008/6/24 Norma Ritter <[log in to unmask]>:
# When Florence Nightingale started to organise hospital nurses in the
19th century, she did so under British military conditions. This
eventually translated into eight hour shifts. Nurses were instructed
to make sure that babies were fed twice during each shift, which meant
at four hour intervals. #


Milk, Money and Madness (p. 123) mentions Truby King who promoted
"Truby King's natural way" both in New Zealand and England (around
1920's - so, a lot later than Nightingale, though), that is, basicly,
feeding strickly by the clock. He was concerned about the diarrhea
epidemy which spred among babies every summer, and believed irregular
feeding schedules had something to do with it.

Sanna-Mari
Finland, Scandinavia

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