Dear Friends: When a NICU works well, it is awesome. However, a NICU completely supportive of breastfeeding is rare in my area. Mothers that have called me in for a consultation for breastfeeding rehabilitation have reported feeling that they were held hostage, that they went along with bottle-feeding as the quickest way to get their baby out of the NICU. I've had nurses in a NICU tell me that skin to skin care wasn't good for premature infants! A neonatologist, head of a NICU, told me that breastfeeding was insufficient nutrition for infants. There is a NICU in our Citythat encourages skin to skin care, and breastfeeding. Most NICUs are happy to bottle-feed human milk, and are useless for breastfeeding support. This is the next big frontier in breastfeeding support. I wish everyone would read Drs. Beverly Chalmers and Adik Levin's bookd "Humane Perinatal Care." warmly, Nikki Lee *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome