Your idea for having students prepare and DRINK formula in high school science class is a good one. I once worked with a physician who maintained that the first feeding should not be either sterile water or glucose water. (In those days, that was the hot debate!) He said the first feeding should be 4 ounces of formula...to the mother!!! He said that if any mother could keep that down without throwing up, she had at least made a somewhat informed consent! -- Marie Biancuzzo, RN MS Perinatal Nurse Consultant PO Box 1562 Phone: 703-758-0092 Herndon, Virginia 22070-1562 email: [log in to unmask]