In a message dated 10/12/2005 6:38:46 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
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Is  taking MORE from the  bottle (premie or full term) necessarily a good  
thing?  
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Yes, if you are the insurance company or the hospital administrator.   
Getting premies out faster is the primary goal in the USA.  We are not  allowed to 
give them time to exclusively breastfeed as in Scandinavia.   Short term gain - 
long term problems - which many of us are fighting.


Are  there any studies that  actually show kcal (energy) used during the act  
of breastfeeding vs the act of  bottle feeding?  The baby can  (and does) 
rest 
frequently during  breastfeeding -- but chug a lugs  during bottle feeding.  
Which is more  energy  saving?

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Excellent question.  I believe those studies exist, but I will  look.  
Bottle-feeding is faster (actually cup-feeding is faster still if  you pour it in as 
in India) so takes less time (another value in the USA -  aren't we strange?).
 
Nancy
Nancy E. Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM,  FAAP

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