Thank you Anne, for the clarification. It is very interesting work, and I
am glad that someone is paying close attention to infant pain. My rather
sharp and sarcastic response (for which I apologize) came from having to
hold for painful procedures that could have been helped by pain medication
(in infants) and were not. This was something I have a hard time forgetting.

Thanks for the info.! : ) Kathleen

At 12:23 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>'Pain' (or lackthereof) was measured by a variety of indicators such as
>grimace, cry, heartrate etc. The whole point of this particular study was
>that infants do not FEEL pain if breastfeeding. If they are not feeling the
>pain, there is no bad association with the breastfeeding.
>Anne Merewood IBCLC
>Director of Lactation Services, The Breastfeeding Center


Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC co-owner Lactnet, Indep. Consultant
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