Dear Friends: I taught my first infant massage class last night. The class was composed of 6 mothers and babies. Babies all around 6 weeks of age. The things that I heard made me sad. Such as the mother whose baby, gaining well, is nursing 5 minutes every hour. The doctor's solution was to tell the mother to hold the baby off with a pacifier for longer intervals and also to pump and give the baby a bottle of EBM before bedtime so he would go longer intervals at night. Another mother, whose baby has had the first of 3 open-heart surgeries, has been told that she must pump and bottle feed so the doctor can know how much he is getting. He is only about 1/2 pound over birthweight at 6 weeks of age. He doesn't like to bottle feed. His mother can see that bottle feeding is hard on him. So she "sneaks" (her word exactly) him onto the breast after he bottle feeds. Do you all you think that this boy is loosing calories by bottle feeding that he could conserve at the breast? Now the dilemma.....I haven't been asked by any mother for breastfeeding help. They all know that I am a LC,but they are in my class for the infant massage training. Do I stick myself out and make suggestions? Warmly, Nikki Lee *********************************************** 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