I have recently started to care for a neighbor's three children early in the
a.m. (she is an ICU nurse on 7pm-7am) for a few hours.  The smallest girl, 6
months old, is not breastfed, they had to show me how to use the warmer.  I
also have no idea how you tell if a baby on formula is hungry- she doesn't
seem to "demand" to be fed at all, I guess the parents just figure out "it's
time for a bottle" and so she gets one...
  This baby refuses to take a bottle from me for two hours after she woke up
from a full night's sleep *until* I hold her in the nursing position, or until
I snuggle her up in the sling (that I sold her mom!).  I felt better formula-
feeding like a breastfeeder - with as much possible body contact as possible,
holding throughout the feeding, not propping (who can prop their breast when
baby is sitting in an infant seat??) and I liked to think that the baby
appreciated it, too.
  As an aside, she has been on the *real* expensive hydrosolate (sp?)
regurgitated- oops, I mean predigested, formula since she was a few weeks old.
Cost each month??  $200.  I was curious about the info on the side of the
formula can, when I got to the blurb "Breastfeeding is Best" there was an
*except* after it (except in a baby with certain medical conditions, I believe
it says)- like protein allergy or inability to absorb fats...  I had never
seen Breastfeeding is Best Except before!

Lisa Jones, LLLL in Wellington FL