At the hospital where I used to work, we were having a hard time getting rid of the pacifiers. They were in the admitting kit which had been used forever and a day. We encouraged parents not to use them, but there they were. We also asked the nurses to avoid them, to little avail. One day I was in a room when the nurse wheeled baby in from a visit with the doctor, and the little fellow was sucking away on a pacifier. Dad grabbed the pacifier and tossed it all the way across the room, and said,"He doesn't need this" . Pointing at the the mother he said, "HE ALREADY HAS TWO OF THEM OVER THERE!" I burst out laughing, and the nurse thought the father had flipped. (By the way, they finally got them out of the kit when we did a QA study to show that taking them out would save the hospital thousands of dollars a year) We had to go at it from the money angle for the final success! We got a little award for our cleverness. I have been off Lactnet a few days. Is there any new word on Hepatitis C? I got a call from a sister LC today who had a mom who delivered today, and they told her she could not breastfeed. Got it from Ruth Lawrence's book. Anything new I could share with her? Thanks for any input. Ann Calandro, RNC,IBCLC Waxhaw, N.C. and wishing I were in Chicago or on my way to Arizona!