In US this is being rethought, same as putting alcohol on cord several times a day. I'm not up on current research tho. Maybe some mother/baby hospital people are. It will probably die VERY hard just like all our other little "NOT" evidenced based traditions :-) Pat in SNJ *********************************************** 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