Check the handouts of the lecture I gave. The references on glucose water actually indicate that glucose water interferes with breastfeeding when it is given instead of breastfeeding. That is not what I was trying to get across, and the people that are squawking have not read the literature. What I am trying to push is the notion of sugar water (or better yet expressed milk or expressed milk in sugar water) as a tool to *improve* the breastfeeding (used with a lactation aid, not with a bottle, cup, finger feeding or other). If the breastfeeding is improved (helping with latch *first*, using *compression* and only afterward supplementing, *if necessary*), the baby will become less jaundiced, because the baby will get the colostrum which is *better* for the baby than formula (even for jaundice). Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC