Hello Friends,

I am new to LACTNET and have a few questionīs which I hope someone out there
can help me with.

I work overseas in a military regional medical center. My questions are
specific to the premature infant in a Neonatal ICU. Unfortunately all of our
Baby-Friendly Docīs have PCSīd (Left our hospital).

Recently, many questions have come up with new nurses7providers to the NICU
on how to start feeding a 32 week ``Premature`` infant. No one can agree on
how to start this. What is happening is they  want the mother to Pump her
breastmilk and then start the infant out using a ``red``nipple or premature
nipple and bottle feed the infant until the IV TPN/ILīs are complete and the
infant is on ``FULL FEEDS``.  We are pushing bottle feeding the
breastmilk and the infant can work on the breastfeeding later when it is
``STRONGER``  and momīs milk supply is in.
Does anyone have a breastfeeding protocal for feeders and growers in the
Level II nursery?
Patricia Guenther, RN,BSN, CCRN
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
NICU, Germany
You can respond privately if you like. Here is my personal e-mail address.
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Thank you Jan BargerRN IBCLC in Chicago for your  help!

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