When we talk in LLL meetings about ways to help get breastfeeding off to the best possible start, I always mention having "No artificial nipples or supplements" written on the chart by the baby's pediatrician. When my first baby was born, I thought that checking off the word "breast" on the crib card was enough. I was wrong. My little one was given glucose water in a bottle and a pacifier in the nursery (rooming in wasn't possible in the first 24 hours as I was recovering from HELLP -or is it HELPP? - syndrome). Baby was pre-term but needed no special care. Her apgars were 9/9. What she needed, to my mind, was to be nursed and held and kept warm by her mother. I learned a lesson, and try to pass that on to other mothers. BTW, next babe was born in a free standing birth center with a midwife. As I said, lesson learned. Lisa Jones, LLLL in Wellington FL