Jean - It's good to hear that someone else had experiences like that! I do this 
because my first was a 32 weeker that weighed 4 pounds - at birth AND at 
her 2 week checkup. MANY MANY tears! My mother actually said "You better 
put that baby on a bottle - or she'll have to go back in the hospital, wear ugly 
clothes, and get an IV - in her head"  

The next day, when I pumped and was going to give her the last bit of 
breastmilk - I still believed it was best - I spilled the milk..and did the All 
American Womanly thing to do - sat in the puddle of spilled milk - and cried, 
literally over spilled milk!  lol  

"That baby" just turned 25, and I'm still angry that there was no one to show 
me how to nurse a preemie without letting her starve and my milk supply 
disappear. I was MUCH smarter by the second baby and he and the little sister 
reaped the benefits!  If I can save one woman and one baby that heart ache -
 it's all worthwhile!   Deb

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