Hello Friends, I am new to LACTNET and have a few questionīs which I hope someone out there can help me with. I work overseas in a military regional medical center. My questions are specific to the premature infant in a Neonatal ICU. Unfortunately all of our Baby-Friendly Docīs have PCSīd (Left our hospital). Recently, many questions have come up with new nurses7providers to the NICU on how to start feeding a 32 week ``Premature`` infant. No one can agree on how to start this. What is happening is they want the mother to Pump her breastmilk and then start the infant out using a ``red``nipple or premature nipple and bottle feed the infant until the IV TPN/ILīs are complete and the infant is on ``FULL FEEDS``. We are pushing bottle feeding the breastmilk and the infant can work on the breastfeeding later when it is ``STRONGER`` and momīs milk supply is in. Does anyone have a breastfeeding protocal for feeders and growers in the Level II nursery? Patricia Guenther, RN,BSN, CCRN Landstuhl Regional Medical Center NICU, Germany You can respond privately if you like. Here is my personal e-mail address. [log in to unmask] Thank you Jan BargerRN IBCLC in Chicago for your help! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html