Jan wrestled with a keyboard and this emerged:

> area r/t clipping a frenulum.  Said the JHL wasn't a professional journal,
> and he wouldn't accept articles from there.  Said that until there was a
> double blind study w/ 1000 children w/ short frenula -- 500 clipped; 500 not,
> and a complete study done AND published in Pediatrics he wouldn't ever clip a
> frenulum.

Wow, I'd love to see if all the advice he gives out is similarly
backed up.  IMHO, such a study would be unethical--as it would be
unethical to deny the control group the benefits of frenotomy.
Perhaps another way to study the issue would be to do pre-feed and
post-feed weights before and after the procedure.

Regards,
Beth

--
Beth Johnson, CBE, ICCE, Doula
Certified Breastfeeding Educator
ICEA Certified Chilbirth Educator (and Not Proud of it anymore)
Post-Partum Doula
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"If life is a bowl of cherries,
 why am I always in the pits?"--Erma Bombeck

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