>snip
>> One study that I found interesting by Yamauchi and Yamanouchi (1990)
>> showed that healthy, full-term breastfeeding babies  fed:
>>     4.3 times in the first 24 hours (range 0 - 11)
>>     7.4 times in the next 24 hours (range 1 - 22)
>snip
>> Riodan and Auerbach (p283-284) refers to the first day sleep patterns of
>> neonates born in hospital and this seem to correlate well with the above
>> study.
>snip
>
>This makes me wonder: are there any studies done on healthy newborns in a
>non-medicated, non-hospital setting.

Gonneke, my feelings exactly.

> I wonder if any of us really *knows* what
>normal sleeping-feeding behaviour is of newborns in a *natural* setting,
>(meaning non-medicated birth in a non-hospital/institional setting), whit mom
>and baby not separated and both healthy.

Yes - I would need to know if Y&Y's babies were with their mothers.....and
not only that, what constitutes the baby 'feeding'. A little lick, a small
suck without a swallow, a lot of small sucks with fewer swallows? Or a
timed 'session' at the breast which we might (subjectively) call a 'good
feed'....there is a huge range of physiologically normal behaviours and
acts that could be described here.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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