Hi Nikki,

I am interested in your gracious offer to send the .ppt about bottle-feeding safety. It would be put to a good use, since we are just finishing teaching a new batch of peer councellors and this topic is really important for them to know too.

TIA,

Christina Yaneva
BF Peer Councellor, Bulgaria

--- On Thu, 7/16/09, Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: bottle-feeding safely
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 6:38 PM
> Dear Friends:
> 
> I am all in favor of teaching safe bottlefeeding, a
> practice that is all
> about RELATIONSHIP too.
> 
> I have a .ppt on this as I have given the talk to nursing
> students and to
> WIC staff. (Email me privately and I will give it to you.)
> Although I am a
> lactation consultant, I feel that my job does cover
> bottle-feeding as many
> employed mothers are subject to the tyranny of the poor
> bottle-feeding
> practices at day care, where their precious milk is either
> dribbled into
> baby's clothing or over-fed to babies who are really
> missing their mothers.
> Dr. Ruth Lawrence made the comment "We tend to over-feed
> babies when we
> bottle-feed them." This is another factor contributing to
> obesity.
> 
> After all, if there is a little bit of precious fluid left
> in the bottle
> (either mom's liquid gold or the expensive substitute), the
> wielder of the
> bottle coaxes/forces the baby to finish the bottle rather
> than throw out the
> expensive or precious liquid.
> 
> The first thing I was taught in NICU work was how to force
> feed a baby with
> a bottle. This was in 1986. NOT a safe or recommended or
> pleasant practice!!
> 
> A mother of a 2-month old told me her baby took eight
> 8-ounce bottles (240
> ml) every day! As the prevailing attitude about bottles is
> that they are
> used to inject as much fluid as possible in the shortest
> amount of time,
> babies will either chug and stretch their stomachs (and get
> fat) or loosen
> their lip seal and let the excess spill out. Plenty of
> mothers on the WIC
> program go through 4 weeks worth of formula in 2 weeks as a
> result.
> 
> The notion of fast food only applies to breastfeeding.
> 
> warmly,
> 
> Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
> craniosacral therapy practitioner
> www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
> 
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