It is only helpful to use a bottle nipple over the breast to help with
latch-on in cases with a baby who is solidly on bottles and has resisted all
other attempts to get him to take the breast.  Often, the baby also freaks
out when attempts are made to put him into position facing right into the
breast.  This is a common situation with babies who are adopted at an older
age, or have otherwise spent along of time without feeding at the breast.
Often, the bottle nipple is used in conjunction with a nursing supplementer,
with the tube threaded through the hole in the bottle nipple, so that the
baby will get a steady flow of milk when he sucks.  I can't imagine these
circumstances would exist amoung babies in a newborn nursery.  I would think
putting a bottle nipple over the breast would just create problems with
newborns.  If the baby really couldn't latch without something over the
breast, a nipple shield would be a much, much better choice than a bottle
nipple.  Besides creating nipple confusion, using a bottle nipple without a
tube threaded through would probably not allow the baby to get a steady flow
of milk, and risk teaching the baby a negative association with the breast.

This almost sounds like something someone would do if they did not want to
have to be bothered helping mothers breastfeed.  Either that, or they knew
absolutely nothing about breastfeeding!

You ladies who work in hospitals must have to bite your tongues an awful
lot, in the face of so many harmful and inappropriate practices you see
happening!

Darillyn

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