I was lucky to be one of the people to hear Dr. Bergman today in Cleveland. He came back here with Gene Cranston Anderson after the Congress on Kangaroo Care last weekend. She started the research on kangaroo care, I think. There are advantages to being in a country where docs are not fearful of being sued for everything they do/don't do for preemies and all our technology is not available. He calls what he does Kangaroo-Mother Care and what he talked most about was when he was at a mission hospital in Zimbabwe with 2 docs, 108 beds, 3 oxygen cylinders, surgical room for c/s and other, closest major hospital a 4-6 hr drive. What was done there: skin-to-skin contact from birth, continuously; breastmilk & breastfeeding from birth, exclusively; psychological support for mother--was done regardless of the weight and gestation of the baby. There was no other choice--and guess what, even for low birth weight babies he had a 50% survival rate! He is dynamite to hear! I am a private practice LC so don't even work with preemies, but could have listened lots more. He was gracious enough after his hour "quick" talk to sit down at a table in the faculty lounge and answer questions for a couple more hours. Lucky us. Pat Bucknell, IBCLC Avon Lake Ohio, about 25 miles west of Cleveland along the shores of Lake Erie ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]