Patti Welcome out of lurkdom. Maybe you could try putting baby in a "ready for bf position", and then let him do finger feeding with the sns tubing til he gets a nice pattern going. Then remove finger and see if he will quickly latch. I believe this is what Dr. Jack does. You could do this with or without a nipple shield in place, since baby is used to bottle feeding. You could have the other sns tubing already threaded under the shield. Good luck. Laurie Wheeler, RN, MN, IBCLC Violet Louisiana, s.e. USA _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp *********************************************** 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