In our NICU the full term or almost term babies were put to breast as soon as possible. Our neo's philosophy was that as long as the IV was in and breastfeeding was progressing as it should there was no need to supplement. Cluster feeds were allowed. He many times would leave the IV in a bit longer when the baby was either having trouble latching or was lagging in interest jane ciaramella NY *********************************************** 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