Dear Laurie- Point well taken as far as which are the battles we want to fight. I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with a lot of flap and because I went into ped's section meeting with the information at hand I was able to calm the storm. The question still remains as to wouldn't the milk be better than risking NEC, plus there is always the chance that long term premies may contract any number of bacteria/viruses during their hospital stay. That premie could pick up those bugs whether breast/bottlefdg. and there are too many confounding factors in the life of a premie. I guess I have had the good fortune of having to deal with neo's at the university level that like to see babies get EBM. Hypothetically speaking, I wonder what the neo's response might be if it was his own premie that might benefit from the milk - would his response be the same? Gloria DeHaven BSN, IBCLC :) *********************************************** 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