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- From: tigger@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Grace Sylvan)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Straightforward breastfeeding question
- Message-ID: <TIGGER.93Jan24125815@satyr.Sylvan.COM>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:58:15 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.232153.5399@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1jkoguINNdds@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Sender: tigger@satyr.UUCP (Grace Sylvan)
- Organization: Sylvan Associates
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- this isn't a technical answer, either, but I do think that as the baby
- gets older and stronger that they can drink it down more quickly.
-
- Katherine never nursed for more than 5-10 minutes a side, and was
- something like 90th percentile all infancy. Her nursing did space out
- (and get closer together again during growth spurts) and she ate
- solids, but not in great quantity until she was a toddler. The amount
- of time we spent during a nursing session didn't seem to increase
- except during those growing spurts.
-
- Robin, on the other hand, is a boy in about the 90th percentile, and
- he took to eating solids very well around 7 months or something. He
- eats 3-4 meals a day, and nurses 5-7 times a day - before bed, before
- naps (2 a day), and early in the morning, and once during the night.
- If I make sure to feed him well before bedtime, we've sometimes
- skipped the middle of the night feeding. But usually he's too busy to
- take much time to nurse, I'd guess we usually do 5 minutes a side.
-
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- Tigger (Grace Sylvan) Mom of Katherine Yelena, 8/8/89,
- tigger@satyr.sylvan.com Corey 1/31/91; we loved him so,
- Robin Gregory born 2/28/92
-
- "It seems to me that our large goal is to find the ways to help our
- children become humane and strong."
-
- - Dr Haim Ginott quoted by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
-