In a message dated 3/28/2003 9:46:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jan B writes:

> So except for one pumping study (KGA) and one premie study (PM) I'm not
> sure there is another valid study out there looking a milk reduction w/ a
> silion shield.  ????

how about:

In a message dated 3/27/2003 6:45:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, Denise Fisher 
wrote:

> I've previously reported in Lactnet on a study of thin silastic nipple
> shield use over a 12-month period at a major Sydney hospital where
> excellent lactation consultancy and follow-up occurred for every case.  Of
> the infants who were fed with a shield (assume excellent teaching), 47%
> either didn't gain weight or lost weight between hospital discharge and
> follow-up at 11 days. Of the 53% who gained weight the gain was 25g to
> 300+g.  So even some in the weight gain group were marginal - though some
> thrived.  (For more details of this study search archives using my name
> (not email, I've changed it) and 'nipple shields' going back to the
> beginning of 2000)


curious if this one was published? will try to check archive.......

 ...what we have also, so far, is clinical experience of seeing, hearing, or 
weighing milk transfer, at least in the short term.

I'm sticking with instructions to moms to pump pc w/shield, at least until 
can document consistently ample transfer, wt gain........

Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the Fairfax County suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway

<A HREF="www.BestBreastfeeding.Info">www.BestBreastfeeding.Info</A>



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