Jeanne says, in reference to using bottle nipples as nipple shields:
<< You don't need references.  Just state the obvious.  There is a
 liability issue with using a product for a purpose for which it was not
 intended. >>

At the risk of getting roundly flamed, I do not think that statement is quite
true.  In talking w/ Pris Bornmann about this sort of thing, the legal issue
is not that you are using a product for which it was not intended, but that
by using it in another way, the initial warranty is voided.  For example, if
you use a cut off syringe as a nipple puller outer, you (legally) void the
warranty of the syringe, and the company won't back you up in that you can no
longer use it as a syringe.

People have been using bottle nipples as nipple shields from the beginning of
bottle nipples.  And if you look in Valerie Fields' most excellent book, some
of them were made of lead.  Better to the point would be an explanation of
how it can lead to low milk supply and the baby not getting enough simply
because of the lack of compression to the deep nerves that stimulate pitocin
and oxytocin that lie under the areola.  I think if you get a statement about
the necessity of deep compression (which is what a baby does on the breast)
-- I think there is one in the new CNM -- and then explain that the use of
the bottle nipple over the mother's nipple precludes this, therefore....you
might stand a better chance.  After all, if you talk about the "use for which
it wasn't intended" you won't get very far:  it is a bottle nipple, it is
designed for babies to suck on, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of
milk from a container to the baby -- and that is how the nurses are using it.

JMHO

Jan B -- in Wheaton where it is in the 70s today and the 30s tomorrow... Sigh.

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