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In a message dated 11/8/2005 5:40:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Breastfeeding Review vol 11 number 1 2003: Implementing the baby
friendly hospital initiative, the role of fingerfeeding (Oddy and Glenn).
Dear Friends:
The hospital in question chose finger feeding "based on an introduction
of the the technique by physician in a seminar." This doesn't seem like
evidence-based practice to me.
"Finger feeding was considered to be more similar to breastfeeding than
bottle-feeding..........." Where is the connection there? I think of Kittie
Frantz posing the question: "How is a finger much different to a bottle teat",
especially if the health care professional doing the feeding is wearing a
glove?
The big difference in this hospitals breastfeeding rates was the
implementation of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, not finger feeding, and
that is what the authors talk about in the conclusion of the paper.
"Feeds usually took approximately 20 minutes so as not to tire the baby
and because these small babies were on a three-hourly feed schedule due to
their size, the feeds needs to be well-timed."
I don't see how this study supports finger feeding.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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