Pat, When my son was born in 1968 at Walnut Creek Kaiser in Calif, there was sterile nursery or rooming in. if there was no rooming in bed available, the baby was kept in the nursery & mom couldn't touch the baby. I told them no bottles & had a 30 hr. wait til I got a rooming in unit. My son nursed, I wasn't engorged & we had 3 yrs of bf. I don't believe that he received any bottles in the nursery but who knows the truth. He was 8#7 1/2 oz at birth, 8# 1/2 oz at one day, 7# 14 oz at 2 days, 7# 14 oz at 3 days (discharge wt). By a week, he was birthweight again. It doesn't seem as if they gave him formula in the first 30 hrs. It would be good to get some good statistics. People panic & give bottles & I then see babies not interested in the human nipple. sylvia mailto:[log in to unmask]