Our NICU rate of infants receiving their own mother's breastmilk varies from 85-90% on any given day (same as our normal newborn population). There are several studies out there reporting good rates (Sweden) and not-so-good rates (USA). Unfortunately I don't have my slides with me to pull off the references. You might try starting with Yip E, Lee J, Sheehy Y et al. J Paediatr Child Health 1996; 32:296-298 and work backwards via the references or run a Medline. Nancy Wight MD, FAAP, IBCLC *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html