I left the corporate world in July and don't really want to get in the 
middle of it again, but there are several points to know about this topic:

1) The Journal of Perinatology article about the Symphony Premie Pattern 
(http://www.nature.com/jp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/jp201164a.html ) 
compares it only to the Symphony 2-Phase (2.0) pattern, which was 
introduced into NICUs all over the world without any research on its 
effectiveness in mothers who were establishing milk production by 
pumping exclusively.  All of the research on the Symphony 2.0 pattern 
until this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18778208 (in which the 
single-phase pattern yielded more milk more quickly than the 2-phase 
pattern) was conducted on mothers with established milk production who 
were breastfeeding a healthy baby.
2) If you compare the study results of the mothers pumping with the 
Symphony Premie Pattern with the original single-phase pumps, the milk 
yields are comparable.
3) In other words, the Symphony 2.0 pattern is much less effective at 
establishing milk production in NICU moms than the original single-phase 
pumps, and this information was only released after the expensive Premie 
Pattern program card was available for purchase.

What has been shared so far on Lactnet is the coorporate spin on this 
information.  Rather than focusing on how ineffective the Symphony 2.0 
pattern is for NICU moms, the emphasis is on how much "better" the 
Premie Pattern is.  When all you hear is the spin, it can be difficult 
to tease out the fallacies in company-funded research.

Warm regards,
Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA
Chicago suburbs
http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/

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