Phyllis writes:

<I find myself mentally riding both sides of this fence. On the one hand, a
drip or 2 of sugar water to get baby interested when mom can get only a drop
or two of colostrum - which I have entertained but never tried - because on
the other hand, how is that different from the nurses' using Sweet Ease on
mom's nipple to hurry up a breastfeed in that precious 30 minutes' maximum
time limit in Level III? I know, it's off-label. Sweet Ease is to be used as
a pain reliever. That's enough on Sweet Ease.>

I know nothing about Sweetease but what I may read here, but I remember once
years ago someone on our hospital staff encouraging me to taste a little
glucose water to disabuse myself of the notion that it was sweet. I found it
very distasteful, not at all like sucrose, which was my reference point for
sweetness, thinking that if it ended in -ose, and technically, a sugar, that
it must be sweet! NOT! At least not according to the sensations given by MY
tastebuds! If someone is trying a few drops of GW on mother's nipples, I
suggest you test the taste yourself! Then again the picture I had in my mind
re: Dr. Newman's suggestions was actually expressing the few drops of
colostrum into a spoon and then diluting it with a little GW. Hope the
colostrum modifies the taste.To try this with a bottle would seemingly waste
a lot of the colostrum on the inside surface of the bottle and nipple.

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, OH USA

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