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I do wonder if there is health AND emotional (which is often underplayed
and not counted) outcomes from babies who are only at the breast verses
babies who are given breastmilk in a bottle. Now having to go from only ever
breastfeeding my babies at the breast to giving my 9mth (now turned 1 yr)
breastmilk in a bottle (because of my cancer dx). I do wonder about the effect
on his health despite it being only breastmilk. He still hasn't gotten any
formula. :-) I look at the bottles as germ carriers and wonder about
leaving out the milk, freezing, reheating, storage etc. I wash the bottles all
by hand separately from other dishes and sterilize them every time. I am
sure others might think over the top for a full term baby at this age.
Breastmilk in a bottle goes through a process of storage and handling that is very
different from the breast. I just can't see how they could be equal. Of
course, please do not think I am bashing breastmilk in a bottle and glad that
is an option for moms (and me and my baby!) but just don't want them to be
equated as the same and no difference as long the baby gets the breastmilk.
I will tell you from my study of one that it is definitely different
emotionally for baby and mom when feedings are not a the breast.
I do think there is a reason why WHO doesn't list baby at breast as equal
to moms milk in a bottle. I do think it would be neat to have only
exclusively at breast vs breastmilk in the bottle studies, but not sure how they
can get a good sample size.
Kim Ann
LLL Leader
mama to 6
Quad Cities, IA/IL
Yes, the baby is no longer fed
exclusively "at the breast," but I think getting breastmilk only in a
bottle
would keep him in the "exclusively breastfed" category that researchers
should
be looking at when one is trying to study or evaluate the health of
babies, in relationship to their diet. The Joint Commission Perinatal
Core
Measure for Exclusive Breastfeeding indicates that those babies who
receive
mama's milk via alternate feeding methods are still counted as exclusive
breastfeeders.
Mary-Jane Sackett, RN, IBCLC, RLC
Pittsfield, MA
(in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts)
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