Teresa wrote:

 >If this is still not effective, I wonder if a nipple shield might help. You
 >mentioned that the baby sucked well on a finger, so perhaps the nipple
 >shield would stimulate that same good suck.

no - she was using a nipple shield and she transferred no more with the
shield than without!

thanks for your input teresa!


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