Kathy says:

 >When a mom/dad, etc says that they prefer to bottle
>feed so that they can "see how much the baby is getting" I say, "but do you
>know how much they NEED???" i.e., is 2 ounces too much or too little??
>Numbers do not tell us as much as one would like to think, and when this is
>pointed out to parents, along with how to read baby's cues, they nod as if I
>have made a lot of sense!!

Drives me crazy, too.

I say in class, trying to pre-empt this idea, that if we were meant to
*know* how much a baby was getting, we'd have evolved with calibrations on
our transparent breasts, and babies would have similar calibrations on
transparent stomachs.  They always laugh at the idea.

I tend not to say it when the baby is actually there - sounds too cheeky
and belittling, and the mother is already anxious and can do without my
'humour'...but yes, I too say that getting is not the same as needing.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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