>I was just visited today by a sales rep from a company that sells hydrogel
dressings and she said some hospitals in the Boston area are giving these
out to all nursing moms, regardless of nipple trauma, because they feel
soothing.<

Wow -- the germ of an un-researched intervention which seems intuitively
useless in terms of ehlping the bf process physically and certain to
undermine the embodied confidence women could develop in breastfeeding,
which would allow them to choose to breastfeed for as long as they and their
babies want (rather than practice brief breastfeeding as a health-based
measure).  I predict this one becoming one we hear of more often.

I hpe you gave the rep a rollicking!!

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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