Wine by feeding bottle!   Good heavens!    Wine on the end of your pinkie
finger or a bit of gauze, dipped in a little cup, is more like it!

I think the idea in the tradition is that sweet+suckiing=comfort -- not so
different from that glucose-by-syringe -- and the tradition's two ideas of
sweet are wine and honey.    The reason they get wine and not honey is that
the person holding them at this point in the ceremony is also holding a cup
of wine, so it's handy.    But the baby still only gets a dip-and-taste.

But the quantity making it down those little gullets is much less than you
would use a feeding bottle for, thank god.

ESU

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