There seem to be 2 conflicting sets of "how tos" for cup feeding. They both advocate baby pacing, not pouring in the milk, using small cups, baby supported sitting up, placing cup at level of baby's mouth with milk almost touching upper lip and keep milk level but... then they split. METHOD 1) says let the baby lap the milk with the tongue and METHOD 2) says place the cup over the lower lip and let the tongue extend under the cup, the baby will sip the milk. Which method to you advocate? why? I use the 2nd method. Why??? it is how I 1st learned, how is that for a stupid answer. BUT, it works. The baby sips the milk just like an adult would, completely under the baby's own control. Recently one of the LCs I work with saw a 5 week old who was supplemented with a cup using the 1st method. This baby (an ex-preemie) kept the tongue up to the roof of the mouth during attempts to latch on. Is this related to the "lapping" of milk? Lapping seems to me to be more a tongue tip type movement. This doesn't seem desireable for efficient breastfeeding. I'll be very interested to hear your collective opinions on this major discrepancy in methods of teaching/using cup feeding. Also, if you know of literature supporting one or the other method, please include it in your posting. I just read the WHO draft document on breastfeeding in an emergency mentioned uptopic and they instruct using the lapping method(1). Carla (just north of Washington, DC)