He cried constantly during feeding and toward the 6th day literally tried to buck his way out of our arms. Please call your hospital ahead of time and find out their policy on this. Thinking that the syringe and cup looked like it would never work. I was racking my brain thinking that he needed something familiar that wouldn't hurt his palate if it slipped and went to far into his mouth. Something with better flow control and would not need to inserted and un-inserted in endless cycles.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I thought of using surgical gloves to create a nipple. They were sitting right there in our hospital room. This version simple stretched the latex over the nipple ring. It was a failure when I actually attached it to the bottle and tried to squeeze. I almost gave up.