Susan writes:
5) The final labeling that drives me nuts is the labeling of flow rates by
baby's age. This is designed to fool parents into buying more nipples and
thinking that it is healthy for their baby to "develop" into guzzling down
their food faster. Now, think of all the eating disorders we see in the United
States. In watching baby's eat, I think the forced rapid feed has a lot to
do with setting up abnormal feeding patterns. But mothers will buy the next
age range of nipple for their baby because they want to think their baby is
progressing.
I seem to be a few days behind, but I just had to chime in on this one: A
light bulb somehow went on, when a few months ago I heard myself saying to a
mother: your breasts are not flowing faster because your baby is older, so why
should a bottle? Often caregivers are putting pressure on a mother to "help"
the baby who is "fussing" if it takes more than 5 minutes to have their
bottled lunch of mother's milk. Doing damage control has become so much a part of
what we do when we try to help breastfeeding families, families who have
fallen for the advertising, bought the expensive, green, fancy bottles, and have
babies guzzling, losing milk ( which means mom has to pump more to make up
for the loss), and getting either more passive, or actively reactive,
protecting their airways, during feedings. These are often babies whose suck is so
poor they cannot even move milk from a supplementer system, and really need
calories badly but safely( like the baby who was 15% below birth weight at 2.5
weeks of age, despite being at breast nearly constantly) I would venture to
say that if a baby is being supplemented by bottle when I get there, 99 times
out of 100, the baby is feeding poorly on the bottle the mom has bought/was
given. Sometimes they feed poorly with any feeding assistive device, both
oftentimes we can really help a baby feed more comfortably, and more safely, and
develop less problematic behaviors transitioning to breast, by getting away
from the expensive, fancy, often undermining systems they have been marketed
and sold.
Peace,
Judy
Judy LeVan Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY, USA
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