I am so pleased.

An MD friend who runs a developmental pediatrics clinic told me that she had
just ordered new Denver kits for her house staff.    I mentioned the question
where you give the child the bottle and the doll and ask how we feed the
baby, and suggested that -- especially in a population with developmental
problems! -- endorsing bottlefeeding as the norm was doing harm!   She
initially said it couldn't be changed, but  reminded her that the activity
where the child puts a raisin into a small jar is often changed to a cheerio,
to avoid the choking risk, and so why couldn't the bottle be changed to a
spoon???

Anyway she emailed me this week that she had ordered both bottles and spoons
for the dolls, and would explain to the students why they might want to vary
the standard procedure in this case!

Baby steps toward normalization.

Elisheva

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