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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