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Medela's Supplemental Nursing System (SNS) is a feeding tube device for giving
premature, failure to thrive, impaired or adopted babies long-term supplemental
feedings at the breast. Because it keeps the baby on the breast, the SNS avoids
problems with sustaining the milk supply, and problems with nipple confusion for
the baby.
The
SNS was originally designed to help adoptive mothers to breastfeed. When a baby
sucks on the mother's breast for a period of days or weeks, a hormonal mechanism
is triggered that causes milk to be produced. This is known as induced
lactation.
The
SNS works by a bottle hung around the mother's neck. Two tubes are taped to her
breasts so that the ends reach her nipples. The tubes are very small and soft
and unnoticed by the baby. When the baby takes the nipple and areola into his or
her mouth, he/she also takes the tube. Breastfeeding proceeds normally,
maintaining the stimulation to maintain lactation and the intimacy between
mother and baby, as well as providing baby with important supplement from the
SNS.
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