Lactnetters, I am a total amateur here, so I hope I don't offend with my ignorance, but I must confess to being a little surprised to hear about bottles apparently being advocated when supplementation is required (including those "haberman feeder" things and various kinds of nipple that are supposed to be more like the real thing). I did a search, and it is quite clear that the vast majority of you believe in nipple confusion - it's been discussed at length on many occasions. So why the bottles? A reliable source tells me the WHO is imminently thinking of recommending that bottles *never* be used, even for artificially fed babies. Apparently, it was something to do with the unnatural, stiff- tongued sucking mechanism a baby needs to bottlefeed, as opposed to the "lapping" movement of the tongue in cup feeding. If this is true, and the WHO really are going to "ban" the baby feeding bottle, that suggests to me that they believe bottles are actively harmful, not just to breastfeeding bottles. What implications would that have for your practice? Would it help, or are the WHO whistling in the wind if they think they can overturn the cultural dominance of the bottle? Just thinking out-loud, but if anyone fancies posting their thoughts, I'd be most interested. -- Anna H. Breastfeeding advocate, would-be writer and baby bottle hater http://www.ratbag.demon.co.uk/anna/ *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html