Dear Keren, my observations of cup feeding is that a baby can become as
hooked on cup feeding as they do on bottle feeding.  Cup feeding is an easy
answer for the baby who needs intake ASAP, but it doesn't do much to correct
poor suck.  I favor finger feeding for a suck problem, however I'm sure
there is the baby who will get hooked on that too!  It is all about
transitioning from -however baby is fed- to the breast.  A gavage fed baby,
who gets K care seems to make the transition from no feeds to breastfeeds
more easily than the baby who has to jump through multiple hoops until s/he
gets to mom's breast!  As you said, babies are incredibly smart and I don't
think we give them enough credit.  That's my ho.  Sincerely, Pat in SNJ

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