Dear Friends:

When a NICU works well, it is awesome.

However, a NICU completely supportive of breastfeeding is rare in my area.
Mothers that have called me in for a consultation for breastfeeding
rehabilitation have reported feeling that they were held hostage, that they
went along with bottle-feeding as the quickest way to get their baby out of
the NICU.

I've had nurses in a NICU tell me that skin to skin care wasn't good for
premature infants!

A neonatologist, head of a NICU, told me that breastfeeding was insufficient
nutrition for infants.

There is a NICU in our Citythat encourages skin to skin care, and
breastfeeding. Most NICUs are happy to bottle-feed human milk, and are
useless for breastfeeding support.

This is the next big frontier in breastfeeding support. I wish everyone
would read Drs. Beverly Chalmers and Adik Levin's bookd "Humane Perinatal
Care."

warmly,
Nikki Lee

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