Dear wise ones,
I am currently helping  the mother of a  baby boy who was born at 31 weeks
at a very NON baby-friendly hospital. This mother continued to nurse her
older child until a week before her new baby was born. She has been
*allowed* to kangaroo her new little one for up to an hour at a time each
day when he is considered to be stable enough (yeah yeah, I know!) and to
nurse him whenever she is present. At other times he is being tube fed her
milk. She is now being pressed to give him bottles. She writes:

>are telling me that my nursing sessions with xxx are ''stressing' him out
and they want to reduce those sessions to only one per day!!!<

I would like to share with her the research showing how bottle feeding is
much MORE stressing than breastfeeding so that she can take a copy to the
NICU staff, but my Google-fu is failing me.  If you know of a URL directing
me to this study, please email me privately as well as to Lactnet. I did
manage to find one online reference, but it required a subscription to a
nurses journal.

TIA, norma

Norma Ritter, IBCLC, RLC
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www.NormaRitter.com

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