To Cindy Curtis who posted..........> She has been pumping and feeding baby
the expressed
>milk in a bottle ever since birth, and today this mom calls me all
>excited because today the baby decided to nurse at the
>breast!!!!!!!!!!!  Mom did all this on her own, did not really want
>help from me, although I called her several times after she was
>discharged and offered to see her , but she was happy with what she
>was doing and was able to pump all the milk the baby needed, and
>baby is nursing at the breast.

This is a powerful success for this mommy who climbed mountains for her
baby, she hung in there.....many others will and will overcome , many will
hang in there and sadly not over come but will have gained from this
experience much inner strength......NONE of these wonderful cases proves
nipple -----doesn't exist or the converse that it does exist....I tell moms
i've never seen a well fed baby ever give up trying just tired parents who
have met their limit, and each of us has our own limit...... I DO FIRMLY
BELIEVE AND TRUST babies will go to mom given the right combination of TIME
and PATIENCE but I ask: why put all babies to the TEST just because some or
even, DARE we  say MANY  babies are flexible and swing both ways with ease
? lets look at the BIG PICTURE------what is NORMAL for infants
?........WHAT were each of us created with......little plastic doll bottles
like you find in the toy store, funny shaped dummies  ? (it takes an adult
to invent a bottle, before them, we had our cupped hands or used our own
mouths.....and it worked we made it ! we survived, we are very
strong....given the right foundation...food for thought.

As our family watched Independance Day (the movie) I kept worrying about
all the "surviving babies" whose mothers never breastfed and were dependant
on ABM... even if they survived the alien attack who would make their milk
? now that the factories were obliterated..no place to clean those bottles
or buy the bags ...?
Where is all that free formula now and what happened to all the discharge
GOODY BAGS ?------only part of that scenario is "science fiction" the
saddest part of that movie is the science fact......