Teresa's story about her premature grandson's time in the NICU is a cautionary tale about how thoroughly breastfeeding can be screwed up for these babies through lack of knowledge or just plain not caring. These nurses ignored or were unaware of (the final result is the same) every piece of research and evidence based practice there is about kangaroo care and breastfeeding the premature infant. Because Teresa was a diligent advocate for her grandson and his mother, the outcome was great. Imagine the more common scenario where the family is not as well informed, they are under great stress, no one is advocating for them and every piece of information they get about breastfeeding is incorrect and inconducive to success. You can pretty much count on the baby going home bottle fed with a mother with no milk. Congratulations, Teresa, for hanging in there against pretty big odds. I guess the good thing is that maybe a few of the doctors and nurses in the units where your grandson was learned a little about how to make breastfeeding work for a premie...and congratulations to his mother. It just doesn't happen without a large commitment from mom. Kathy Boggs, RN, IBCLC Mountain View, CA. *********************************************** 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