>They were difficult to keep clean, and infants surely must have found >them uncomfortable, but for almost 2000 years, pottery nursers >(complete with pottery nipples) were used for feeding babies. I suppose dying of gastroenteritis was a little "uncomfortable" :-( -- Anna (mummy to Emma, born 17th Jan 1995 and Alice, born 11th Sept 1996) Email: [log in to unmask] Web Page: http://www.ratbag.demon.co.uk/anna