Well this is partly a teaching aid and also help for Anne Williams' problem with
the night supplement.

During my prenatal classes and my inservices, I do this role play showing when
father could introduce a bottle and when it is not a good idea.

First I am father sleeping.  Baby wakes.  Father stumbles out of bed, picks up
crying baby, goes to fridge, makes noise finding bottle, finds other things to
put in his mouth, finds bottle.  He then goes to sink to get bottle warm.  He
goes to chair to sit and feed the baby, tries wrong end of baby, he falls asleep
and doesn't interact with baby.  Bottle falls out of baby's mouth because he is
not paying attention.

Meanwhile, Mom can not sleep from all the noise of the baby and kitchen.  She is
uncomfortable because her breasts are full.  She has to get up and sit next to
baby and pump.  I then say "what is wrong with this scene?"  It usually does the
trick.

 For mom's going back to work, I suggest dinner time between feedings while mom
is trying to get dinner.  Good help and time to get use to bottle if needed.  It
is also important to give many other ideas for dad time.  They sometimes think
that is the only parenting thing to do with a new born.

Diane Herforth, IBCLC
Tacoma, WA