I've read that book too, and while I agree with some of the routine things I never agreed with the feeding and expressing stuff. Everyone's boobs & babies are different and require different amounts!
My DD followed the sleep routines to a tee, she did it naturally without me having to do anything, but the feeding ones were way off. She was a super quick feeder and would be finished in 10mins, where as in teh book it said stuff like "feed left breast 1/2hr then 15mins on right breast" - how could she possibly know how much my baby was getting in that time, or how much I was supplying?
My DS was different, a huge feeder and a lot bigger baby, and his feeds were much longer. So if I followed the feeding routines in that book, Lucy would have hated it and Coleman would have loved it.
It is nice when they go into a routine, but I think you have to wait and see what your babies ques are and work around that.
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