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> 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)
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> 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.
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This makes me wonder: are there any studies done on healthy newborns in a
non-medicated, non-hospital setting. 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. And what effect on short and long term
milksupply this sleeping-feeding behaviour has. Does anyone out there know?

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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