Oh Goddess, I've forgotten her name already!  said:  Dr. Paula
completely failed to mention
that there are so many other opportunities for dads to bond with babies:
bathing, cuddling, dressing, playing, napping, rocking (and
theoccasional
bottle of EBM).  In fact, without bottle-feeding as a
crutch,determined dads
usually *find* more ways to get involved and have bonding time.
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This I hope, is more than a "me too".  My dh absolutely didn't like
feeding our first dd bottles of anything.  It made both of them
uncomfortable, and made him feel inept.  He tried it, oh, once.

This reason has been around for years, and it is just a terrible one.
I recall reading here a couple years ago that someone somewhere had
determined that babies needed one person to feed them, regardless of
whether or not they were breastfed or bottlefed.  They needed to
attach to one person as a primary caregiver.  Does anyone have a
reference on that?  I would love to have some.


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Kate Hallberg, mom to Ursula (11-23-94) and Sage (4-13-97)
Home page- http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina
Currently living in Palo Alto, California near San Francisco

If Zeus and Hera had kept Hercules in their bed, Hades would never have gotten his hands on him, now would he? (Disney version)

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