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Maureen Minchin <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 9 Sep 1998 01:41:19 +1100
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<< He also recommends stretching the intervals of the daytime feedings,
 lest the "baby's stomach gets conditioned to being fed small amounts
 frequently, instead of waiting at least two hours between feedings at
 birth, and at least four hours by 4 months of age."   This combines with
 a statement that "By 4 months, about 90% of infants sleep more than
 eight consecutive hours without feeding.  Normal children of this age
 (and premature babies who have reached 11 pounds) do not need any
 calories during the night to remain healthy."

Would somebody influential and respected in the US, preferably an alpha
male from an impeccable Christian background recognised as such by the
brand of religion Mr. Ezzo espouses,  please take time to go and talk
kindly and respectfully to Mr and Mrs Ezzo and carefully explain to them
about the interaction between breast storage capacity, infant stomach
capacity, and needed frequency of feeding, a la Peter Hartmann's work?
Quite clearly Mrs had ample breast tissue and thinks every other woman can
produce in just the way she did. These are not people I'd want to have as
friends (controlling types who can't see women and their babies as
individuals rarely are.) However, they are or are believed to be "good"
people and I would first take time to meet them and talk seriously to them
about the science of lactation before writing them off as malevolent and to
be shunned or flamed or worked against. they are ignorant. It is a
value-free and remediable condition in most humans, though not, I grant
you, in all. Perhaps this has been tried and failed?  I am happy to send
them a copy of the new BFM when it returns from the printers if someone
will send me a snail-mail address for them...

Maureen Minchin, IBCLC. Christ Church Vicarage, 14 Acland St., St.Kilda,
Vic. 3182 Australia. tel/fax: 61 3 9537 2640
"Taking paths of least resistance is what makes rivers - and people -
crooked." poster in Palmerston North NZ bookshop...

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