Dear Ro,

No references on nipple confusion (except Jack Newman who has written on it
in a couple of spots - JHL, June 1991 is one I can think of).  However, how
many Peds tell the mothers who are successfully bf to make sure they give the
babies a bottle at some point - usually one a day - imagine! just to "make
sure" the babies will take a bottle.  If they don't get used to it, they may
never take a bottle and mommy will be "stuck" with this baby bf q 2 to 3
hours for the rest of her life.  If that isn't nipple confusion/preference,
what is?  (Smart babies, I say!)  If nip. confusion/preference doesn't exist,
why does the entire medical community (almost) recommend that?  And, what
about the babies that will ONLY take one kind of pacifier or one kind of
rubber teat on their bottles?  After all, isn't that what R--s is attempting
to do with their vanilla scented pacifiers?  Hook the babies into refusing
all others?

Jan B.  [log in to unmask]