A few months ago I would have agreed with you that this sounds rubbish, but my recent experience fits in with what they are suggesting in the report.
I didn't manage to bf DD so took in as much advice as possible with DS. He was huge when born (11,2.5!) so took a lot of feeding which was hampered by a dfficult labour/c-section/blood loss/transfusion/jaundice. I fed on demand which was constantly for the first 8 weeks then 2 hourly or so until 3 months. A feed never took less than an hour both sides. By 3 months he'd only gained 2lbs. Some weeks he didn't gain weight at all.
By the time he was 4 months my milk was deminishing depite this frequent feeding and he started to get cross and refuse the breast. Within a few days I'd switched to formula. (He still has a little suck prob once a day.)
In light of this (small sample) study, we may have done better just 10mins both sides...as my mother kept informing me is what they did in her day! Every mw/hv I saw said the first 10mins is just foremilk, which is why I kept him on for so long.
Do you think it's too late for me to get him back on the boob? I still have some milk there. It's been about 2 weeks since I switched.
Sorry to ramble, but I thought I'd made my peace with giving up as it wasn't working. If we have a chance of making it work this other way maybe I should give it another try...if it's not too late.
Thanks for listening!!
Ladybird xx
P.S. Since having formula he's put on 3lbs!