I apologize to all those whom I drove crazy with my abbreviations. Here's
the decoder:

ITN= intracthecal narcotic, otherwise known as "the walking epidural".

MER= milk ejection reflex

NNS= non-nutritive sucking, a highly controversial term that we argue about
constantly. <g> I am using it to refer to short, choppy sucks that result in
little milk transfer and very high suck/swallow ratio.

Now that I've defined my mystery code, I'd be most interested in hearing
other's observations of babies born to mothers who had ITNs during delivery.

Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC