With this statement on cupfeeding perhaps it would be wise to also contact
Sandra Lang. She is a midwive in Great-Britain and has lots of experience
with cup-feeding. She also knows the ins and outs of literature about this
topic. I often was with her and was impressed by her knowledge of feeding,
the differences between different types of feeding (breast, cup, bottle,
finger), and I think, she knows, what she is talking about.
In my experience, especcially with premies, it is important to use all the
posibilities to make them feed. In my opinion it makes no sense to skip one
of the most important and simple methods to feed a premie. In the hospitals
I come (some on their way to babyfriendly), the nurses and midwives mostly
are very impressed by this feeding-method, once they have seen and
understand it. But training here is very important. When they only read
about it, they have strong prejudices against it, and can't imagine, that it
functions well. You have to see it to believe it!
Many greetings from the Black Forrest.
Elien Rouw, MD, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Freier Stillgruppen (a
lay-counsellorgroup in Germany)
Bühl, Germany

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