Not sure where to ask about this awful terrible baby advice you have published?

[ridiculouspirate]

www.mumsnet.com/babies/features/developing-a-routine

What on earth?

Mumsnet advice pages used to be reasonably balanced and evidence based. Saw this shared on Facebook and wondered wtf someone was thinking?

Make it stop before someone tries this bollocks on their new baby!

Ah I see, I think I did a few asterisks and they bolded instead. Doh.

It's gone but still no apology from mn?
Poor.

I wondered about that but, presumably, someone asked the author to write it for the site so maybe they just want it to go away quietly....

My DS was neglected as an infant.
He now has an eating disorder.

That is so sad. I think if we were neglected as babies it was "scientific" neglect, because my mother was a very warm person who loved children. But she would have followed whatever childcare recommendations were about in the forties and fifties.

This is very interesting; I live in Spain and was brought up in France so I have a number of French friends. Most people I know in Spain and France feed their babies every four hours. Of course, that's not a particularly large sample of families, but the things you've described on here such as "cluster feeding" are not ones I'm particularly au fait with.