Last Saturday in the "Reliable Source/Names and Faces" section of the Washington Post, a story about a couple who delivered at a downtown DC hospital, got a bunch of feebies from a baby bottle company (clue: smooth stream), along with a form to mail or fax in to enter a Mother's day sweepstakes for a $50,000 college scholarship for babies born on that special day. Anyone else heard of this sweepstakes in other parts of the country/world? Dad faxed in the form and won. The mother was quoted as saying that the baby was nursing (so glad of that and that this fact was included in the article) but would be off the breast at some point and so they can use all those bottles. With all this ABM backed encouragement to use bottles the switch to formula is likely to be sooner rather than later. Our local LCA of Greater Washington should contact this couple and offer some free lactation consulting to support a longer duration of breastfeeding so that this future college student can take full advantage of the scholarship and get a Phd in lactation! Would that be irony or karma? Deb Springfield, VA