Never say never. I saw a mom at 12 days who was using a HealthFlow teat over her nipple for a non-latching baby... and doing fine with it. She hadn't started encouraging him to take the fat part of the teat until just the day before, yet his diapers had always been ample, with plenty of stool. She had a hair-trigger let-down, even though the fingers holding the base of the bottle teat were practically at the base of her nipple. While they were with me, he took a standard nipple shield (not the premie one; I thought he could really benefit from a wide, wide mouth) but badly - fussing, pulling off - and mom called me later in the day in tears because he wasn't feeding well. Over the next two weeks, they progressed to exclusive bare-breast feeding, with him gaining like a horse. But I suspect she could actually have continued with the bottle-teat-cum-shield! Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html