Lu says,

> A local hospital here uses jelly, usually grape, on mother's nipples to
get
> the baby to latch.  I had a nurse ask me why I was not using jelly for
> latching problems since she had seen it used at the other hospital.  I
> tried
> to explain evidence-based practice, etc. but was discounted since I could
> not
> PROVE it really hurt.  Oh, we use the vanilla pacifiers too!
>
I've been racking my brain trying to remember the name of the breastfeeding
book that was out and about 15 - 20 years ago that advocated the use of
grape
jelly on the mother's nipples to help the baby latch -- also the use of the
NUK nipple for anything from pacifying the baby to train him to suck
correctly.  I think the book was by Ilene Rice, but I could be wrong on that
too.  It had some -- umm -- amazing ideas in it.  Anyone else remember which
book I'm talking about?

I just checked my bookcase -- the one with the little-used books in it --
and
it's not there.  I did find a first edition of the Womanly Art, and Kathleen
Huggins first edition of Nursing Mother's Companion, and Tom Hale's first
edition of Meds & Mother's Milk (1992) and a few other interesting things,
but not that book.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC -- Wheaton IL
Lactation Education Consultants
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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