Pat wrote:
 
 
<<Nipplettes were designed to help pull inverted nipples  out.  Mom does 
it, at 
her own comfort level.  Reverse pressure  softening (2 free hands) probably 
work better :-)  I'm not aware of  any research showing advantages or 
disadvantages (but that doesn't mean it  isn't out there somewhere :-)  You 
can make your own with a 50 cc  syringe (except that is against hospital 
policy of using something for  other than intended use).>>

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OK, Pat, I really did have to chuckle at your last  comment....hospitals?  
Use something for other than intended use?   When was the last time someone 
put ice in a glove and put it on an infiltrated  IV site?  Or on a swollen 
perineum?  Or gave Keflex to a baby?   Or used Cytotec to stimulate labor?  
Or took disposable diapers, run them  under hot water and used them for 
engorged breasts?  Or heated a baby  blanket in a microwave?  
 
That is NOT a "hospital policy."  Though individual  hospitals may adopt it 
as a policy.  But then they better look at all the  other things they are 
doing (see above list).  And the  inverted has an excellent article to back 
it up -- please look at  the June, 1993 issue of the JHL.  Nurses and others 
have been improvising  for years, and will continue to do so.  In hospitals 
and other  places.  
 
That said, I had a student in one of my classes that had used  the 
Nipplette on herself, and she said it was wonderful -- did a great job of  pulling 
out her rather flat nipples.  
 
My N of one.
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA




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