If in fact there is no difference, and the bottle is an equal method of
receiving the milk  and if there is no difference in method of receiving the milk
from a bottle or a breast, why is it that babies who can bottle feed cannot
always breastfeed?  Is it always a matter of choice?  If there is not physical
difference in the sucking of the bottle and the sucking of the breast, it would
stand to reason that babies can easily go back and forth with no breast
refusal after receiving bottles.  I have read the studies too, I have also read
Dee's article, and have long before the article used the method of paced feeding
as I learned it years before. I don't use the same bottles and prefer the wider
bases to keep baby's mouth open at the angle most like assymetrical latch.
And, yes, I do teach bottlefeeding differently as a step to returning to or
initiating breastfeeding.  But, still, it does not seem to make sense to me that
we are not to make the connection between bottle feeding interfering with
breastfeeding if babies can easily take a bottle and not as easily take a breast.
I can't shake the pictures from Kittie Frantz showing bottle and breast and
tongue motion and the years of learning that the tongue does work differently
on the bottle than it does on the breast at many panels from those who teach
these things. Over and over being told:  Avoid bottles, they cause nipple
confusion.  Now being told, no bottles are not a problem.  Babies don't suck any
differently on a bottle than they do on a breast.  I envy those who are starting
'now' with their learning as they don't have the years of knowledge and
understanding to 'unlearn' .  Haha.  So, if there is no difference, what is the
point of worrying if a baby gets a bottle in the early days?  (Other than what is
in the bottle of course) and why do babies refuse to breastfeed if they do get
bottles too soon?  And is there more going on in the difference between
breast and bottle feeding other than the movements of the tongue that is subtle
enough to bother some babies?  Or is it just a coincidence or a reverse
association?  I dont' know.  I do know that mothers have babies who are breastfeeding
well the first day in the hospital, get a bottle in the nursery and then won't
go back to breast easily.

I am not trying to argue the research, goodness knows I am not qualified to
do that, but it jsue seems odd to me that there are so many coincidences.

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