Hi All, I just want to give MHO and .02 worth, Kathy D. is right on, in America, if you can't buy something to 'fix' it, make it 'better', make it 'easier', more 'convenient' or take it into the 21st Century - then it is archaic and needs to be discarded. Breastfeeding, like childbirth are biological requirements to insure that our species not only survives but stays at the best potential possible. (Oh, I hear the voices screaming now, I was fed formula and I'm just fine), I am simply stating a truth. Yes, I am among one of those fed formula and I am 'just fine.' But now 42 years later, I wonder if my passion for 'needing' love, my allergies, my continual joint aches and my periodic swings into almost deathly fatigue are not caused because there was no motherly attachment (I was in the hospital as an infant, hence the formula) and the use of formula. Medicine is just beginning to venture into some very interesting studies of brain growth and development and it's affect on the person. I wonder if one of the variables factored in is, breastfeeding vs SIN use?!? To me, studies need to be done to emphasize how required by biology breastmilk and breastfeeding are to not just the survival but to also insuring the best potential of the human, now and in the future. A friend calls the use of SIN, the dumbing down of America, I call it the plasticizing of America - plastic food, given in a plastic bottle, with a plastic nipple while baby sits in a plastic seat. And we wonder why we have so many social and psychological problems in the US? I also want to paraphrase, Kathy D's comment, from a recent issue of Mothering, coitus, childbirth and breastfeeding are biological necessities of human survival, if we avoid them or displace them - what will be the result? My mother gave birth in a time when you were knocked out and woke up 'three days later' as a mother, it is understandable how she had no problem walking away from me as far as being a mother. Now we are just shifting it from childbirth to breastfeeding. Always want to ask (but polite enough not to), if you don't want to be a mother, why did you have a baby? Leslie Ward