In a message dated 11/8/2005 5:40:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: 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 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html