just wondering how other mums cope with the age old question from people who are not aware how demand feeding works - we've all heard it i'm sure "Are you feeding him/her AGAIN?" my other personal favorite is you are making a rod for your back to which i reply well it's my back! sometimes i feel flustered (even after successfully breastfeeding my older two well into toddlerhood) when uneducated people believe that if your baby is fed frequently they comment 'you mustn't have enough milk'. Oscar is a very petite boy (he is on the 15th% on the USA graphs for artifitially fed babys in the back of the MCHN book) and i often get comments about how 'skinny' he is and how i am starving him. even though he consistantly gains the minimum amount of weight weekly and has wet and poohy nappies (he is only 5.3kg). he is exactly like my eldest son as a baby who hit 5ft when he just turned 10 years old and is 30 kg so is still long and skinny (and he is in men's size 7 shoes!). i didn't get the comments so much with my middle son who was a big fatty on breastmilk. most days i cope well with comments or i hardly hear them or i look at my happy, contented baby and know they don't know what they are talking about. but some days when i'm having a flustered mum day i become a little worried and concerned. wow i didn't know how this affected me until i wrote this post.... sorry for dribbling on and i'd love to hear how others deal with other peoples misguided attempts to tell us what is best for our babies!

beckles