This is exactly how I teach babies to drink from a straw if mom needs to 
work and the baby just won't take a bottle.
If one does this repeatedly, the baby will learn to suck when the straw 
touches the tongue in midline. Then I put a second straw in the baby's 
mouth, in a cup of milk (or water for >6 mos olds), the baby will suck 
from both, and learn!

Catherine Watson Genna BS, IBCLC  NYC  cwgenna.com

On 10/9/2012 6:55 PM, K. Jean Cotterman wrote:
> But when I saw the mom using a straw dipped into some kind of milk (???), with the mom's finger over the other end to contain it till the tip was in the baby's mouth, , I thought, "Why hasn't anyone else thought of trying that recently?" Another way to avoid nipple confusion for NICU babies????

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