Rob,
I'm happy to have you question my remark that << We know that many new babies
are fussy, gassy and belch-y. >>

Now that I think about it, almost all the babies I have seen, including my
own two kids, were born in institutions, spent much of their time wearing
clothes and lying down in beds by themselves, and were nursed in a pattern
far different from the "2-3 minutes, about four times an hour" that
anthropologists observed among the !Kung people of Botswana.  And in addition
to that, the babies I know were breastfed by mothers who themselves had been
formula fed or given early mixed feedings, with who-knew-what amount of
damage to their own gut integrity.

So I gleefully confess to being caught making the same assumption I love to
blame in others: the assumption that the narrow slice of life that I see in
my own culture represents The True State of Humankind.

Thanks for helping keep us on track in our search for Breastfeeding Truth.

Chris Mulford
IBCLC, Swarthmore  PA  (eastern USA)

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