Hi all I have been very busy and have had a hard time catching up on my mail.
We are potty training at our house and a 5 month old baby that cries everytime
her brother sits on the potty!! I'm bushed.  Anyway I have a mom that was sent
home from the hospital with a nipple shield.  She has flat nipples and was
beginning to use the breast shields but got a late start on that and then the
baby was born about 37 weeks, by the way these are not the flattest nipples I
have ever seen before.  Anyway baby is doing great with the nipple shield but
mom and the peds want to get him off of it.  Mom admits it is a crutch because
he does so well.  Mom has a huge milk supply and it just runs out of her.  We
have tried the gradual trimming away of the nipple shield but baby choked a
lot and mom got worried.  Mom has stated that his suck is stronger as of late.
Baby is about 3 weeks old now.  Trying to slip off the nipple shield didn't
work either, boy did he get mad.  Any thoughts?  I have tried to acess the
archives about this and how long can someone use a nipple shield and about the
safety of St. JOhn's Wort but I can't get through.  I'll keep trying but
please help me if you can.  Thank a bunch!!!!

Toni RN