>Dear Friends:
>    There are two studies (one by Alexander, and the MAIN Collaborative
>trial) that showed that wearing shells while pregnant does nothing to help
>breastfeeding, and may actually interfere with initiation and duration.

True, but the studies weren't done on technology-happy Americans who worship
at the altar of Gadgetry.  There are women who look at breast shells the way
they'd look at a dead fish.  And there are women who get a gleam in their
eye like Dumbo's when he had his "magic feather."

I don't see many women prenatally, but on the very rare occasions when I
talk with a mom about breast shells, I watch to see whether her reaction is
dead fish or Dumbo feather... and encourage her accordingly.  The women in
the study, if I remember right, tended to feel disempowered by the shells.
I think some American women feel exactly the opposite.
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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