Dianne, With all respect due to you & your profession, I am sorry to disagree. You propose to continue our bottle feeding culture with using the very "crutch" that a mother would not need had we a culture that promoted breastfeeding. If the mother using a bottle for a couple more days so she won't be weird ends up totally bf, then that is a happy ending. Unfortunately, we live in the real world, & many if not the majority of mothers who, once they begin to use bottles for any reason, may never return to total breastfeeding. Using a cup or other method, keeps that separation of feeding methods more pronounced for the mother, not making the mother feel "replaced by a bottle." Use of a bottle can then lead to the "anybody can then feed the baby" syndrome, making the mother less needed or special. I guess I see this too much in my lay experience, not many of the happy endings. Recently I saw the above once again with a mother with her 6th child. She had BF all previous children well into toddlerhood to age 2+. So, you would think that a day or two of help using a bottle with formula (despite my discouragement - the weird factor I bet) would not have caused her much distress. Yet, she ended up using the bottles more & more to the point of many feedings a day. She was so upset, but felt powerless to do anything. That is where the bottle culture acceptance is so pervasive. She just accepted that it was okay to continue instead of feeling that she was weird (using bottles) & made more of an effort to BF. Surely, your patient base is numerically wider & statistically varied compared to me. With the management care of a HCP like yourself, I am sure that the above can be avoided. Most mothers in our area do not ever see LC's because they live over an hour away, so there is no mangament of these moms when supplementing. Lora Gleaton, LLLL