If your child nurses only for a minute or so at the nighttime wakings, or takes just a few sips from the bottle, she is not taking in much food. Rather, she is behaving like a child who is dependent on a pacifier: it is the breast or bottle itself that she needs before she can go to sleep, not the food. This pattern can be stopped immediately, as discussed in Chapter 4. On the other hand, if she takes in a substantial amount of food—from extended feedings at the breast, or from bottles adding up to more than eight ounces over the course of the night—then she has learned that certain times of
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