Holy - - - - , You mean there are still babies being tortured in this way...kept NPO pre-circ? I am absolutely astounded. NPO status for surgery is related to general anesthesia...period. I no of no hospital giving generals for circs. There should be no NPO status...and that is how we do it here. Never a problem. I encourage a breastfeed immediately before circ and again after..to compensate for the fact that lots of babies will go down and sleep for a while, and not feed well for hours after the circ. I reccomend you get anesthesia on your side with this one. Certainly, there is someone in the department there that knows why surgery patients are made NPO. Susan Keith-Hergert RN, MS, CPN, IBCLC Mercy Health Partners Cincinnati *********************************************** 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