> Your thoughts are deeply appreciated. However, this is an adoptive nursing > situation. As part of preparing to bfeed their babies these women are > getting gear ready, which could easily include Lansinoh, if it can include > Blistex (Wal Mart/Target have has them both readily available!). Although I > totally understand your comment when it comes to women delivering their > babies, what are your thoughts about using Blistex in this special > situation? Now, anyone who reads the article will use Blistex and not > anything but...ie not chap stick, not anything that says Natural, just > Blistex. Most of these amoms have never had bfeeding experiences and don't > realize how deterimental-imho, using the stuff would be! Or would it!? Sorry Marimar, I was not thinking straightly when I first posted. I guess I was concentrating more on the blistex question as one might see it even with non adoptive moms than on the fact that these are recommendations for amoms. My own mom adopted her third child at 10 months of age (already used to the bottle, and my mom being 10 years post nursing of myself, she did not nurse my sister...I doubt it even occurred to her that she COULD do so.). I agree that if you're preparing ahead of time for adopting OR for delivery, it would be wise to go get the lansinoh right away to use rather than blistex. That's assuming one knows it exists (but given this forum is talking about it for after one has the child, might as well suggest it for pumping beforehand too). As a last add-on to my post about having used blistex once...the "natural" blistex I have is unflavoured, unscented, and does not make the lips feel "cold/hot" like regular blistex does (the medicated kind). I figured that since it was meant for putting on the lips (as different from putting on a cut on one's arm... ;-)) that it was therefore not liable to be very toxic if swallowed (i.e. melting off when drinking a hot drink) so I used my own judgement and used it on the one occasion that I did. Back to the website, it makes me wonder if the person has any interest in Blistex's company. Maybe even their husband works for Blistex or something...who knows. Otherwise, why mention THAT brand and not another? Fio. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html