I ran across this article on AOL entitled From Parenting Magazine, 6 Things Your Baby Would Tell You ... if only he could talk! The other 5 suggestions were actually pretty good, but I was dismayed to see the following, which assumes a bottle-feeding baby. "I'm not always hungry when I cry" It's been three hours since baby's eaten. You strap him into his high chair, zoom a spoon of pureed peas toward his mouth and he clamps it shut like a steel trap! What to do? Experts agree on one thing: If your baby's otherwise healthy, and his actions suggest he's not hungry (he turns away from food, he ate an hour ago and seemed full then), believe him. Feeding too much or pushing a full baby to keep eating isn't good for him. If he cries when it's not mealtime, figure out what could be bothering him before pulling out a bottle or baby food. Kathy Kathleen Fallon Pasakarnis, M.Ed. IBCLC Nurturing Family Lactation and Parenting Services *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html