Niki and all: Thanks for the warm welcome back! I actually didn't go 
anywhere just ahve been enormously busy working on and completing my 
PhD...

As to the gape, it is extremely important that parents elicit a full 
root. Of course, drugged babies do not do this well. The gape will be 
lost if the finger feeding individual fails to consistently elicit the 
gape. Fortunately, it can be cultivated once lost until it is 
integrated at about three months.

As to evidence for finger feeding as a method; the Australian study is 
the only offical study I know of. We need more research on the method 
to be sure. The FDA required saftey and efficacy studies on my device 
so it has been proven to be safe and effective. It would be great to 
have Hartman and Hale do a study on finger feeding as a method wouldn't 
it!?

Alison K. Hazelbaker




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