Along with the increased skin-to-skin (and you will never convince me
that a bottle fed baby get anywhere near the same amount of skin-to-skin
as a breastfed baby) and the eye developement from switching breasts when
putting babe to each breast(eye-hand coordination), a mother with a
reduction or that is adoptive nursing (even when she has no or little of
her own milk supply)may also find that her baby has the advantage of:

* better oral development (possibly straighter teeth, better speech which
leads to better reading)

*less ear infections due to less milk running back into the eustachian
tube (suck-swallow with little to no pooling of milk)

* mother must be there (sometimes) to provide comfort and security

* mom learns baby's cues & responds better

* can't be propped- promotes attentive mothering

What else can we think of is better because of the mechanics of
breastfeeding?

Terriann Shell
Big Lake, Alaska