Dear Wise Ones,
 I have two questions to ask for help with.
1.  Does anyone know of any medical peer review journal articles on
clippling frenulums and the effect on breastfeeding.  The head of our
lactation department is being questioned by the hospital pediatrician
because another Dr. complained to him about our frequent referral (2) of is
patients to have frenulum clipped when he could see nothing wrong. The info
we have is in lactation articles and those are not deemed good enough.
 Any Doctors out there, what would convince you that clippling frenulums uas
ok, and that it affected breastfeeding?

2. Our NICU is looking at new pacifiers for premies and want one that moms
can buy on the open market - the ones we use now are from formula companies
and not available when moms go home.  They are considering "Gerber New
Traditions".  Has anyone had expereince with this pacifier? It is supposed
to pop out as baby sucks on it.  I am fully aware of the dangers of
pacifiers, so lets not go there.  The reality is that the NICU is going to
use them, and they want ones mom can buy, not ones the formula reps hand
out. Any feed back on tis pacifier would be appreciated.
Thanks for your help.
Peg Merrill,IBCLC
writng this for Marla Newmark, RN, IBCLC

             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html