In this part of the author's Web site
http://www.babywhisperer.com/askTracy.htm

... the author writes:
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ASK TRACY

Have questions or comments?

Send us your questions between February 5, 2001 and March 6, 2001 and each
week author Tracy Hogg will address the five most-asked-about topics.

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If you have questions or comments on the evidence her breastfeeding advice
is based on or anything else, you may feel compelled to write.

The site is disturbing. Lots of talk about respecting your baby, and things
that contradict it. She has a major issue with "on-demand feeding." Here's
an excerpt from the site:
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The E.A.S.Y. Regimen For Babies From Birth to Three Months as detailed in
SECRETS OF THE BABY WHISPERER
How To Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby

E.A.S.Y. is an acronym for the structured routine that Tracy Hogg
establishes with all her babies, ideally from Day One. It is central to her
whole-family approach, because it ensures that every member's needs are met,
not just the baby's. Tracy suggests thinking of E.A.S.Y. as a recurring
period, more or less three hours long, in which each of the following
segments occur in this order:

E - Eating - 25 to 40 minutes, on breast or bottle; a normal baby weighing
six pounds or more can go 2 to 3 hours to the next feed.

Whether your baby is breast- or bottle-fed, nutrition is his or her primary
need. Babies are little eating machines. Relative to their body weight, they
eat two to three times the calories of an obese person.

A - Activity - 45 minutes (includes playtime, diapering, dressing, and a
relaxing massage and bath.)

Before the age of three months, babies will probably be eating and sleeping
70% of the time. When they're not, they'll be on the changing table, in the
tub, cooing in their crib or lying on a blanket, in their carriage for a
stroll, looking out the window from their infant seat. Doesn't sound like
much "activity" from our perspective, but it's what babies do.

S - Sleeping - 15 minutes to fall asleep; _ to an hour nap; will go for
progressively longer periods through the night after the first two or three
weeks.

Whether they sleep like a dream, or in fits and starts, all babies need to
learn how to get themselves to sleep.

Y - You - An hour or more for you when the baby is asleep; this time is
extended as baby gets older, takes less time to eat, plays independently,
and takes longer naps.

After all is said and done--that is, when Baby sleeps--it's your turn. Sound
impossible or unreasonable? It's not. If you follow the E.A.S.Y. program,
every few hours, there will be "you" time to rest, rejuvenate, and, once
you've started to heal, to get things done. Remember that in the first six
weeks--the post-partum period--you need to recover physically and
emotionally from the trauma of childbirth. Mothers who try to rush back to
life as they once knew it, or whose "on demand" feeding schedules don't
allow them any time to rest, pay the piper later on.

E.A.S.Y. is a flexible but structured routine. It is predictable--parents
set a pace that baby can follow and baby knows what to expect. Because it is
logical, parents can anticipate baby's need and therefore are more likely to
understand the different cries. It allows parents to plan their lives. And
it leaves parents feeling more confident about their own parenting because
they understand their child's cues and cries.
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Janice Berry
Westerville, OH

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