A near disaster occurred with the Torticollis baby with crooked mouth and tongue last week, where she began gurgling and gagging, turned, red, purple, then blue waiting for a 911 response. She was revived, pediatrician called it Reflux. Pediatric Dysphasia specialist ordered swallow study which revealed that she is aspirating when she drinks. When milk was thickened, she did not aspirate. So, mother is to bottle feed breastmilk thickened with rice cereal that she pulverizes into flour and adds to breastmilk as available, formula when not. She is also seeing a neurologist next. My question to you is -- is rice cereal the only way to do this, or is there a better substance to use? Thanks, Ann Ann Conlon-Smith, IBCLC Triangle Lactation Consultants 919-845-8826 _www.trianglelactation.com_ (http://www.trianglelactation.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