This is just EZZO with a new name!   I agree "Hogg"wash.  Chris

In a message dated 2/10/01 8:39:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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>  ASK TRACY
>
>  Have questions or comments?
>
>  Send us your questions between February 5, 2001 and March 6, 2001 and each
>  week author Tracy Hogg will address the five most-asked-about topics.
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>  ***
>  If you have questions or comments on the evidence her breastfeeding advice
>  is based on or anything else, you may feel compelled to write.
>
>  The site is disturbing. Lots of talk about respecting your baby, and things
>  that contradict it. She has a major issue with "on-demand feeding." Here's
>  an excerpt from the site:
>  ***
>  The E.A.S.Y. Regimen For Babies From Birth to Three Months as detailed in
>  SECRETS OF THE BABY WHISPERER
>  How To Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
>
>  E.A.S.Y. is an acronym for the structured routine that Tracy Hogg
>  establishes with all her babies, ideally from Day One. It is central to her
>  whole-family approach, because it ensures that every member's needs are
met,
>  not just the baby's. Tracy suggests thinking of E.A.S.Y. as a recurring
>  period, more or less three hours long, in which each of the following
>  segments occur in this order:
>
>  E - Eating - 25 to 40 minutes, on breast or bottle; a normal baby weighing
>  six pounds or more can go 2 to 3 hours to the next feed.
>
>  Whether your baby is breast- or bottle-fed, nutrition is his or her primary
>  need. Babies are little eating machines. Relative to their body weight,
they
>  eat two to three times the calories of an obese person.
>
>  A - Activity - 45 minutes (includes playtime, diapering, dressing, and a
>  relaxing massage and bath.)
>
>  Before the age of three months, babies will probably be eating and sleeping
>  70% of the time. When they're not, they'll be on the changing table, in the
>  tub, cooing in their crib or lying on a blanket, in their carriage for a
>  stroll, looking out the window from their infant seat. Doesn't sound like
>  much "activity" from our perspective, but it's what babies do.
>
>  S - Sleeping - 15 minutes to fall asleep; _ to an hour nap; will go for
>  progressively longer periods through the night after the first two or three
>  weeks.
>
>  Whether they sleep like a dream, or in fits and starts, all babies need to
>  learn how to get themselves to sleep.
>
>  Y - You - An hour or more for you when the baby is asleep; this time is
>  extended as baby gets older, takes less time to eat, plays independently,
>  and takes longer naps.
>
>  After all is said and done--that is, when Baby sleeps--it's your turn.
Sound
>  impossible or unreasonable? It's not. If you follow the E.A.S.Y. program,
>  every few hours, there will be "you" time to rest, rejuvenate, and, once
>  you've started to heal, to get things done. Remember that in the first six
>  weeks--the post-partum period--you need to recover physically and
>  emotionally from the trauma of childbirth. Mothers who try to rush back to
>  life as they once knew it, or whose "on demand" feeding schedules don't
>  allow them any time to rest, pay the piper later on.
>

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