Preemie for a day is presented by Children's Medical Ventures I believe. The
company makes such items as swaddlers and containment bumpers for preemies.
They also make pacifiers for kids who are way too little to be given a paci
- in many cases they should just be allowed to have their fingers (sometimes
not possible with arterial lines and IV's), and they make those green and
purple silicone type pacifiers with the standard bottle teat on them (as
well as vanilla scented pacifiers which I know have been discussed here
before) 

They do a number of different seminars including a full day program on
feeding a preemie that focuses on bottle feeding, and while the feeding
readiness cues and scale apply to breastfeeding, I would not call the
program breastfeeding friendly. I have the printed materials from the
program somewhere around here. If I recall correctly, a formula company may
have sponsored lunch for the program but I cannot be absolutely sure about
that. 

The preemie for a day focus's on the environmental aspects of being a
preemie - light, sound, being swaddled and contained vs. not. It allows a
big person to crawl into giant size products to see what the little ones
feel like. I don't know how much, if any feeding content is in it. 


Michelle Meeks

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