>Go to:
>http://my.webmd.com/content/article/59/66826.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-
>BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}
>for article on WebMD (right next to huge formula ad!) with comments from me,
>Nancy Powers and Jum McKenna.
>nancy


Good comments, Nancy...but WebMD haven't even reported the study
correctly. The reporter says 'In a new study in the February issue of
Archives of Childhood Disease, the British researchers say the main
reason why 3-month-old infants don't sleep through the night is a
feeding schedule during their first week of life that falls within
recommended guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics and
other experts.'

This is not correct - though I have not read the full study. As far
as I can tell, the study reports that infants who feed 11 or more
times in the first week are more likely to wake up in the night at 3
months - but it's actually a characteristic of the 'wakeful' babies
that they fed 'more' in the first week, not that the 'more frequent
feeding' *caused* the 'wakefulness'.

The researchers used this ''symptom" (the 11 or more feeds) to
indentify the babies who might 'benefit' from sleep training from 3
weeks. I don't think they imply the feeding is 'to blame' for the
'wakefulness'.

I share all the questioning of the assumptions of this study, but
sloppy reporting from WebMD makes it even more misleading.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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