Two nifty things, one I discovered, one from a resourceful father: When giving an emergency bottle to my friend's exclusively breastfed 3-mo-old: she did NOT want that bottle! I circled the 'neck' of the bottle with my thumb and forefinger, and put my next three fingers onto the baby's cheek; at first I tried patting (the generalized "jiggling" response you have to a fussy baby) but what worked best was just gentle pressure of my hand on her cheek. I realized afterward that I was simulating the skin-to-skin contact of BFing. It worked! (This probably wouldn't work if you have small hands, but most any dad could probably do it with practice.) I had another friend with a prodigious milk supply and a fast-growing baby who was taking 8-10 ounces of EBM by the time he was four months old. His dad noticed that he balked, squirming and fussing, after about 4 ounces, puzzled over it, and then *aha* - switched sides! Baby polished off the rest of the bottle without any trouble. BTW someone asked awhile back about "record-setting" milk expressions. This friend and I worked PP together and took pump breaks together; this was back in 1980 when full-size electric pumps weren't even much available for NICU moms much less "ordinary" working moms! She used (ugh) an Evenflo bicycle-horn style pump and I did manual expression and each of us had no trouble expressing eight ounces. My "personal best" was 11 ounces. (Winner and still champeen! :D) Using coffee cups it is possible to hand-express on both sides at once; you thread your middle finger through the handle and press the breast onto the rim of the cup. Don't knock it til you've tried it! It worked great! Mary Renard <[log in to unmask]>