Hello Netters,

The question, as my mind remembers, was that why do not more people use the
Lact-aid, softer, easier to hide, etc. than the SNS??  Being a LC over 15
years now, I use to be a Lact-Aid Rep back in my early years. (anybody else
remember those years having to become a rep??)  The Lact-Aid was the only
supplementer feeding system at the time.  Jimmie Avery, at the time living
in Colorado, first designed the product for nursing her adopted child.  For
those of you not familiar with the product,  it consisted of a roll of 100
Lact-Aid bags (4oz capacity), funnel to pour milk into the small opening at
the top of the bags, tabs to attach to bra, and a Lact-Aid Nursing
Supplementer ( plastic top with tube coming out that fit into the bags). 
Unfortunately, the bags were always leaking out milk any time you would set
 them down.  You had difficulty setting up several at a time in the
refrigerater for night feedings because they were bags and not bottles that
would stand  up.  There was only one tube, therefore you had to put baby
down, switch the tube over to the other side before you could feed again.  
You could never squeeze the bag if you wanted to "jump start" or assist
baby with the feeding or milk would go everywhere.  That is why Medela came
up with the SNS design.  Much easier to use, less messy, can jump start
baby with a quick sqeeze of the container and double tubes.  As far as BF
in public,  I do feel the Lact-Aid was more ideal.  I use to suggest this
to BF moms that were brave enough to BF in public with a supplementer. 
That has and is my experience with supplementers.  I still have a case of
Lact-Aids in my antique BF inventory along with one of the first electric
breast pumps ever to be made.
"Fax Machine--A device that allows someone in another state to pile work on
your desk." by Mrs. Webster's Guid to Business

Pat Bull, RN, IBCLC
The Breastfeeding Connection/Medela
Naperville, IL - 48 degrees again today.