Margaret and Stewart Wills <[log in to unmask]> wrote:I also explain that newborns don't have any clue about bottles -- why 
should they?.  I've started using the belly-balls to illustrate that, as 
the system was designed, the baby's stomach expands in harmony with the 
expanding milk production across those early days, driven by *a lot* of 
sucking.  Babies come out (in the optimal scenario) as extremely 
motivated little suckers, designed to jump-start milk production, 
getting all that calming satisfaction on a nice soft breast and a thick, 
concentrated flow in small steady amounts while they learn about 
breathing and coordinating suck/swallow/breathe.  If we play a nasty 
trick on babies and provide a free-flowing bottle, they don't know how 
to not to keep chugging -- it's almost as if those brand-new babies 
aren't wired for "stop sucking when you're full" because under ordinary 
circumstances, they can't overfeed on colostrum, and the more sucking, 
the better..  Maybe learning to respond to satiety signals also develops 
with the increase in production.Dear Friends,

What we would need for those little ones that are not being fed at breast and not being fed human milk, are very small, slow-flow bottles, filled with a special newborn formula that mimics the "feel" of colostrum: thicky-ish, creamy and slow-flow. The flow and the stickyness should be so that it takes the infant about 15-20 minutes to empty the suitable amount ("colostrum amount") and will make him feel hungry again within 2 hours. Of course this would make formula feeding more difficult and time consuming, but I think that should be seen as a positive factor.

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL in summer-warm springtime in southern Netherlands


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Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC 
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