Here's a repeat of a post of mine a year ago. It's a "small" study but 
the title and date of discussion can give others clues to searching for 
more of that discussion:

Subject: Re: percent of women who are medically able to breastfeed? 
From: Linda Folden Palmer <[log in to unmask]> 
Reply-To: Lactation Information and Discussion 
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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:28:29 -0400 
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J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 1993 Jul-Aug;22(4):338-47. 
Breastfeeding support services in the neonatal intensive-care unit. 
Meier PP, et al
Department of Maternal-Child Nursing, University of Illinois, Chicago 

OBJECTIVE: To describe a model for providing breastfeeding support in 
the 
neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU)... PATIENTS: One hundred thirty-
two (132)
mother-infant pairs over 1 year. Infants were hospitalized in the NICU, 
and mothers had initiated lactation efforts. INTERVENTIONS: 
Investigators 
provided breastfeeding interventions for the mother-infant pairs, based 
on 
identified problems, the research literature, or both. ...CONCLUSIONS: 
This model was effective in preventing breastfeeding failure for this 
population....

I could dig up the full-text but my memory is that there were no failures 
in this one intensive intervention trial. 
linda
 

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