My heart goes out to your mom who wants to convince her baby to take a bottle, this baby sounds exactly like my little guy who did the same thing. He wanted it from the breast and did not like bottles. He would eventually begrudgingly take the bottle some times (my guess is when the hunger pains got too bad), but at 6 months when solids were started he never took another bottle, he went to firm straws that he could suck juice out of and solids when he was away from me and the breast when we are together. I don't think he suffered any long term damage emotionally or otherwise because we never forced just offered. Now that he is 4 I think that was our first glimpse of the strong willed personality that he had. Good luck to her, tell her to relax. Barb in Wisconsin *********************************************** 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