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Dear Friends:
Debra Beckman, the speech and language pathologist, who has developed a
thorough and detailed method for working with oral-motor problems in infants,
said at the International Conference in Orlando this past January that
healthy babies should be able to go back and forth between bottles and breast.
(www.beckmanoralmotor.com)
That explained something to me, about those mothers who come from
cultures where pregnancy milk (colostrum) is deemed bad or wrong for babies. They
bottle feed for the first few days, until the milk volume increases, and then
go on the breastfeed for years. There is no fuss, no confusion.
Perhaps the babies that can't go between breast and bottle feeding have
some oral-motor weakness that is compensated by one feeding method and
prevents them from being flexible?
Does anyone know what happens with babies who have nipple or flow
confusion as they mature? Do they develop speech defects?
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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