Our hospital has a new policy in place on cup feeding, but only a few of us have any comfort level with it. I've had some success using it in my private practice and on the unit. A training blitz is scheduled for January to update our staff on all breastfeeding policies including alternative feeding methods, especially cup feeding. I cup fed a little guy today (using a medicine cup) who was 32 hours old and still hadn't figured out this sucking thing. Mom had a 25 hour labor, 12 hour epidural, ending in CS for fetal distress. Had a couple of bottles on nights but would not latch at breast (or suck on my finger). Just screamed. I convinced him to take 15 cc of SimFe the first time, and 20 cc about 2 hours later. At that point, he began to root so we gave him to mom and he took a few sucks. She pumped a small amount of colostrum and I showed dad how to cup feed it to baby. The plan was to continue pumping/cup feeding until he catches on, but since there will be no LC there again until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. FYI, the following is our policy/procedure for term infants written by myself and several nurses with information from articles and Sandra Lang's talk at ILCA: SPECIAL INFORMATION/PRECAUTIONS: Indication is need to feed baby supplement without introducing rubber nipple The following procedure is for term infants EQUIPMENT/SUPPLIES NEEDED: Small cup with smooth top edge Cloth for catching drips Expressed breastmiulk or breastmilk substitute PROCEDURE: