In a message dated 11/8/2005 5:40:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
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Breastfeeding Review vol 11 number 1 2003: Implementing the baby  
friendly hospital initiative, the role of fingerfeeding (Oddy and  Glenn).



Dear Friends:
    The hospital in question chose finger feeding   "based on an introduction 
of the the technique by physician in a seminar." This  doesn't seem like 
evidence-based practice to me.  
    "Finger feeding was considered to be more similar  to breastfeeding than 
bottle-feeding..........." Where is the connection there?  I think of Kittie 
Frantz posing the question: "How is a finger much different to  a bottle teat", 
especially if the health care professional doing the feeding is  wearing a 
glove?
    The big difference in this hospitals breastfeeding  rates was the 
implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, not  finger feeding, and 
that is what the authors talk about in the conclusion of the  paper.
    "Feeds usually took approximately 20 minutes so as  not to tire the baby 
and because these small babies were on a three-hourly feed  schedule due to 
their size, the feeds needs to be well-timed." 
    I don't see how this study supports finger feeding. 
    warmly,

Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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