Dear Melinda,
      I printed out your post to add to my "Best of Lactnet" file (well,
pile).  Thank you for these very calm and reasonable thoughts.  I was
thinking along the same lines and you wrote them down so well!
      18 years ago when our nursery regulary put bottles of D5W in the
cribs for the breastfeeding babies, and there was a baby who wasn't
latching on, every once in a while I would try letting the baby suck on
the bottle, then quick switch him onto mom's breast, and sometimes it
worked quite well.  When I became the unit clinical educator in 1986, one
of the first policies I worked on was getting rid of the D5W, and did so.
 Maybe, maybe, some of the nurses have a point when they say the baby
needs to learn to suck........preferably learn to suck on the breast, but
sometimes the bottle doesn't do the damage we think it will.  Of course I
prefer baby to imprint on mom's nipple first.
     Thank you again for your post, I have a feeling I may refer to it
again some day for the voice of reason.
     Susan Potts  Minnesota
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