I am a junior nursing student at UB in Buffalo New York. I have just finished my maternal and pediatric rotation and I found it to be interesting. My first patient was a first time mother and she was eager to breastfeed her son. He was born two weeks earlier than expected. My problem is: The infant would not latch on to the mother's nipples. I was a bit intimidated and didn't really know what to do initially. I tried positoning, rooting reflex and even glucose water on the mother's nipples to stimulate his sweet sense of taste. The Nurse assisted me for about 20 minutes, but we gave up. A specialist was called in, but by then I was already off the floor, so I was unable to follow up at that time. I saw the mother three weeks later on a required home visit we have to do as students to do "client teaching," and the mother said she gave up because her baby boy was just uninterested. I am now interested in finding out for myself what other techniques could have been used initially to help this mother. Does anyone have any suggetions? Bibliography Essential of Maternal-Newborn Nursing/ Patricia Wieland Ladewig, Marcia L. London, Sally B. Olds-3rd ed., 1994 by Addison-Wesley Nursing. ******************************************************************************* Devena P. Tucker * University @ Buffalo, * School of Nursing '98 * *E-mail: [log in to unmask] *******************************************************************************