Pat, I saw your post and had to write. A wonderful >90 greatgrandmother once complimented me on picking up, holding and carrying my baby and commented on how lucky I was that people were so "much more enlightened nowadays." She went on to tell me about this Holt guy and the advice he gave. I said, "How awful it must have been not to be able to pick up your babies!" She looked at me conspiratorially and said, "OOH, I still picked them up... but I worried for years that I'd ruined them. They turned out fine after all." I know her family and they turned out marvelously. And, my 8-year-old marine biologist who has exhausted our library's juvenile collection of whale, dolphin and porpoise books, says, "They squirt at/into the baby's mouth." Makes sense...marine mammals have just a slightly more ejective milk ejection reflex!!! Margaret Ann Margaret Ann Paxton "If you don't know your options, you don't have any."