>                         Question about cup feeding.  Is there any reference
>or articles about this?


Sandra Lang's book Feeding Pre-Term babies is excellent, with
photographs and references.  Available amazon, IIRC.

>  We have a patient we want to try cup feeding on,
>baby is a preemie and is now being allowed to start nursing as opposed to
>tube feedings, only for 2 of the infant feedings a day can the baby nurse
>the other feedings are OG or given an expressed bottle.


What does the mother want to do?

>  Anyway baby nurses
>well but is limited to time on the breast.  Then they supplement with a
>bottle of breast milk afterward.


'They'???  Can we assume this means the mother?!  Not criticising
you, Pam, but the set-up where babies are 'allowed' to do certain
things, and 'they' take over : (

>After all she said they burp so big when you cup
>feed a baby and the doctor will never go for that.


Poor doctor. Maybe he/she has sensitive ears and doesn't like to hear
babies burp...shame .  Pesky babies. Maybe 'they' could devise a way
to teach them to burp more silently.

>  Anyway we wanted to
>dispute everything she says with references.


Good thinking!!

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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