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| Your baby wants to nurse all the time. Your baby isn't sleeping through the night. You've been told your baby is being spoiled. There are books out there from self-proclaimed experts that tell you that you will damage your baby by not putting your child on a schedule. This in fact is not the case. Much more likely, your newborn and your milk supply will suffer if you begin to use a schedule for feeding. Newborns need to nurse very, very often. Most will nurse around 12 times a day in the beginning, but some will want and need to nurse as often as 18 times daily in the early days. This is important for establishing your supply, and for getting your growing baby the calories needed to do all that important growing. Setting your newborn on a schedule can have disastrous results -- which may not become obvious for months but, once reached, can be difficult to reverse. What should you know about schedules and the breastfed baby? The links below provide some answers. |
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| Last Updated February 2, 2004 |
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