On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 06:51 PM, Jim & Winnie Mading wrote: > It has been said that babies get 20% less milk through the thin silicone > shields than at breast directly. Some fairly recent lit though showed that preemies actually get more milk with the shield. So for a preemie who would otherwise have to get feeds from a bottle, and who is so extremely small, a shield may be the best of all of the shorter term solutions. katherine in atl *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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