If parents are told to cup-feed each other before cup-feeding the baby -
specifically experimenting with being cup-fed w/ their head back vs
vertical, and w/ milk held at lips vs tilted away from lips - is there
really a problem w/ teaching cup-feeding over the phone and offering it as
an option for a term, apparently healthy baby?

I think the key to giving baby control is to have the baby's head vertical,
so that milk *cannot* be poured in, and this is something adults quickly
figure out when they practice on each other.  (It's both scary and messy to
have your head back when someone cup-feeds you!)  Just wondering if our
negative group reaction was entirely justified.  Barbara Wilson-Clay's
cautions gives me pause, but so did Susan Horein's post on what we're
supposed to do for the mom who can't be seen right away.

(And how do we spell this, anyway?  Cup feeding, which implies that this is
a new and non-standard approach?  Cup-feeding, which says that it's been
around a while? Or cupfeeding, which means it's very well accepted?)

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY
who has chosen a middle-of-the-road approach