Growing up and Chowing Down

When Emily Fischer decided to breastfeed her first child, the idea of nursing whenever her little bundle of joy demanded made her more than a bit apprehensive. But she was pleasantly surprised when she and her newborn daughter, Lyndsay, settled into a pretty regular nursing pattern once they arrived home from the hospital.

"We would relax together in her nursery about every four hours or so for the first few weeks," she says. "That was about as often as she seemed to want to be fed." Sometimes, Lyndsay would even sleep for five hours between feedings.

But as soon as Lyndsay turned about 3 weeks old, the predictability of her feeding routine went haywire. Suddenly, the quiet, leisurely nursing sessions Mom and Baby shared began to come at more frequent intervals.

"She was waking up and needing to be fed about every two hours or so," Fischer says. "I was asking myself, 'What happened to our schedule?' It was puzzling because she was so easy-going and had such an even temperament at first. But I was beginning to feel like an 'Open All Night' diner."

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