Hi, Germaine: Not only does the practice of putting "things" (ie, sweetease, formula, etc) on the nipple to "entice" the baby concern me, it makes me plain CRAZY. I don't see the rationale behind this, maybe someone can enlighten me. I was not at all familiar with this practce before I came to the hospital I currently work in. One thing I have noticed is babies who refuse to latch to a breast which doesn't taste like formula. I recently worked with 2 babies on the unit at the same time who had been enticed with formula and were now refusing the breast. Not only do I have to deal with nipple preference, now we've added milk preference to the problem list. And the staff is not seeing the problem here. Why must we obsess about making a baby feed when we deem it is time to feed? Why does no one respect the baby and his learning curve? Why are we so task and equipment oriented when it comes to nursing a baby? Thanks for listening to my vent. The staff is probaboy tired of me and my craziness today. Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL USA *********************************************** 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(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html