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Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 21 Oct 2000 09:36:00 -0400
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Never say never.  I saw a mom at 12 days who was using a HealthFlow teat
over her nipple for a non-latching baby... and doing fine with it.  She
hadn't started encouraging him to take the fat part of the teat until just
the day before, yet his diapers had always been ample, with plenty of stool.
 She had a hair-trigger let-down, even though the fingers holding the base
of the bottle teat were practically at the base of her nipple.

While they were with me, he took a standard nipple shield (not the premie
one;  I thought he could really benefit from a wide, wide mouth) but badly -
fussing, pulling off - and mom called me later in the day in tears because
he wasn't feeding well.  Over the next two weeks, they progressed to
exclusive bare-breast feeding, with him gaining like a horse.  But I suspect
she could actually have continued with the bottle-teat-cum-shield!

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY

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