From Maureen Minchin on Lactnet.  I did try to bring her up the Ezzo curve a
degree.  Privately.

Jan

<< Re: educating Ezzo

 << 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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