I'm getting in on this discussion real late, but I have some additional suggestions for getting the baby to take the breast, if she is resistant to the suggestions that have all ready been made.  Twenty-one years  ago, I succeeded at getting my daughter, Julia, nursing, at the age of one year.  She'd been very resistant even to bottle feeding when I got her, more than five months earlier.  Even after I got her bottle feeding well, she would freak out if I tried to position her facing straight into my breast. One thing that made a huge difference, with her, was feeding her with a bottle nipple with the tube of a supplementer threaded through it.  She'd suck on the bottle nipple, as if bottle feeding, but there was no bottle in the way.  For that to work, there has to be only one hole in the bottle nipple, and it has to be small enough to seal around the tube.  Once she was part-way through the feeding, settled in and relaxed, I could gradually turn her toward me and she wouldn't get upset.  After she had learned to be comfortable with the bottle nipple positioned directly over my breast, I could try to get her to take my breast.  It was a long, slow process, but it worked.  Had I not been extremely patient and avoided doing anything to upset her, I don't think we ever would have made it.   I've found, from working with other moms adopting older children, that age is only one factor in how much patience and care is required in transitioning from bottle to breast.  The trauma the baby has experienced before placement makes a great deal of difference, too.  Julia had spent her first four months in a hospital, being fed through a gastrostomy, having three major surgeries, and getting little or no attention from her birth parents.  Hopefully, this baby will not be as resistant and not require as much effort.  I'm sure it is a great comfort to the adoptive mother to be able to give her breast milk.  I could never pump more than a dribble, so the only way my kids got breast milk was by suckling. Of course, I didn't have domperidone.  I wish we could predict why some moms respond so well to dom and some don't, but it seems to help everyone at least a little bit.  

I hope to keep hearing updates on this baby!  If the OP would like, she would be welcome to give the mom my email address, although I'll bet she has other contacts who have nursed babies who were older at placement.  
 		 	   		  
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