Maybe an obvious question and already been asked, but has the mother or father tried giving the mothers milk themselves? Just to see if the childcare provider has some problem with actually handling the human milk. And, just from my own experience, our daycare was very cooperative in using the SoftCup Feeder, (except, once, when a sub was there and proudly announced that she had got him to 'take a bottle nipple' and he drank 6 ounces at 11:00! I arrived at @11:30 to nurse and he was not interested in eating then! I cuddled for a bit and then pumped. I wasn't mad just annoyed and explained that he was not allowed to have a bottle nipple.) I had a 12 week family leave, so, my son started daycare at his 13th week. I think the daycare has an obligation to try and get the situation to work, without formula, perhaps they truly have but I would investigate further. What if the baby had had some reaction to the formula?! Good luck, Cheryl *********************************************** 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