Felicia,
The term "on demand feeding" was around in the mid-1960s in Australia and
New Zealand when it was used in State-run maternal and child health circles
(and in some areas and by some individuals frowned upon), but I don't know
how many years before that as I don't have all my old notebooks from my
research for my PhD. The notebooks from my research are in one or other box
since I moved a while ago.

Back in 1965 I was called "a bad mother who doesn;t love her baby" by the
nurses who ran Child Health as I wouldn't feed to schedule and space out
the feeds (as instructed), and "persisted" with breastfeeding and, although
"on demand" had its adherents, it had its dyed-in-the wool detractors who
dictated to mothers of babies and had all the power. Those attitudes are
what made me determined to train so that I could help other Mums, first as
a breastfeeding counsellor and then as an IBCLC and historian.

Virginia Thorley
In Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

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