Cathy says,

<< Anyway, eventually we stopped all that gratuitous suctioning of NB's, and
 not only were they considerably more willing to go to breast and nurse
 without all those nasty oral associations, but guess what? You got it -
 suddenly they were no longer turning blue and needing to be rushed back to
 the nursery for resuscitation constantly! >>

Oh gosh, from cabbage to bulb syringes....aren't you glad 1999 is going to be
here in less than 48 hours so I'll shut up?

ANYWAY, another of my pet peeves is the ubiquitous (blue) bulb syringe --
shove it rudely in the baby's mouth, stuff it up the nose because the nose is
stuffy -- and then the mucous membranes swell, and the baby gets stuffier, and
then we suck more nothing out and swell the membranes even more.  And do you
have any idea how HARD it is to put cabbage in a baby's nostrils to decrease
the swelling????

These poor babies.  One wonders how we made it to the 20th century -- almost
the 21st without all these modern inventions like (blue) bulb syringes.

Sigh.

Jan B -- who will NOT build a temple to bulb syringes in her back yard.