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