I'm Barb from Launceston, Tasmania Aus. I am an L.C. who has been working with difficult feeding problems for 7 years in a parenting centre. In reply to David Page Tues. 6th June I am interested in any oral musculatary info. Together with a physiotherapist we have worked with babies with hypo and hypertonic suck problems using oro-facial stimulation, with some very good results. I'd also be interested in research on suck vs suckle . By suckle do you mean non-nutritive suck? We have found several poor weight gain babies who suck non nutritively with low supply or poor let-down. ie hypotonic suck. OFS increases tone . Sometimes a finger feed stimulates a stronger drawing suck. Over a period breast feeding (or bottlefeeding) improves.OFS also improves uncoordinated suck/swallow/breathe patterns. Enough for now. look forward to any comments. Barb *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html