>Chris writes:
>>if the baby was sufficiently
>>draining the milk sinuses (including with breast compression) that there
>>shouldn't be any reason why a single nursing session should take more than
>>10 minutes from a nutritional perspective.

But that's the numbers game again....and the distinction between the
nutritional and any other perspective is spurious. Bf is meant to be a
combination of optimum nutrition *and*  a loving,  sharing relationship
expressed physically....looking for the cut-off point between those two
aspects is impossible. It all comes in the same package : )


KD added:

>It depends on the baby -- its neurological functioning, how hungry it is,
>the efficiency of its sucking, its strength, if it is healthy or sick, etc.
>etc. etc.

Of course. All babies are different, and all babies are different all the
time.
>
>Not to mention the more important point that breastfeeding is much more than
>nutrition, and that some children are leisurely nursers, while others are
>barracudas, and others change from day to day or nursing to nursing.

Of course again. It's trying to measure, to time, to  schedule, to
clock-watch,  and to make predictable,  and to homogenise,  that got us all
into a holy bf mess in the first place : (

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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