Dear Nikki I love this! What a wonderful story too! You made a great impact. Keep reminding us about your skin to skin idea. Someone will follow through on it. Chris In a message dated 3/29/2005 10:23:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: I have always wondered about skin-to-skin with bottle-feeding. I wonder if the difference between bottle-feeding and breastfeeding (as documented so beautifully by Dr. Meier) is really the difference between skin-to-skin care and clothed holding. I would love a study where mothers of babies in NICU serve as their own controls; one monitored feed could be a bottle-feed one with mother and baby clothed, and the other monitored feed be bottle-fed with skin-to-skin. I have mentioned this to many different people, and no one has picked up on this idea. Maybe we could get more folks to do skin-to-skin, which might be a way to sneak breastfeeding into some families, as some babies would probably start latching! warmly, Nikki Lee RN, MS, Christine Betzold NP IBCLC MSN www.theBFclinic.com *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html