<Scheduled to be marketed under the name "PAL," (Pacifier Activated
Lullaby),
the invention exploits infants' natural appetite for music and applies it
in
a medically useful way for neonatal care.  In only minutes, "'preemies'
as
young as 8 months and weighing as little as three pounds can get the hang
of
the pacifier," says Standley.  "In one test, a 'preemie' who had never
fed
orally before sucked down a whole bottle of formula after 15 minutes of
training with the musical pacifier," Stanley said.>

I wonder if he would consider a slight modification, and invent a musical
nipple shield?

Then again, maybe we maternal-child health care workers need to "invent"
our own version. We take a perfectly usable milk-filled model with not
one, but TWO nipples, and instruct it as to the importance of reacting
immediately with humming and singing lullabyes to the attached baby every
time it starts to suck efficiently!

We could call it "The Original Singing Pacifier-Mother"! Then again, I
seem to remember hearing of that invention centuries ago.

OTOH, maybe we could just buy Robots and use THEM as babies if we REALLY
love modern technology that we can separate from at any time we find
nurturing inconvenient!

K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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