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Date: | Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:32:44 -0500 |
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For those of you with a copy of Bestfeeding, look at page 150. The mother
is gazing at her newborn with a look of tenderness and love as she
bottle-feeds it, but the caption reads "This is called 'detached
bottlefeeding'..." and the reason is obvious when you look at the picture
from the baby's perspective.
A nursing baby's whole face - no, his whole body - is in full contact with
his mother. There's just no way to mimic that kind of sensation with a
bottle. Bottle-feeding requires body distance; breastfeeding requires
body contact.
The most compelling reason, for me, is that work is made, not saved, and
rhythms are complicated, not simplified, by pumping for a bottle, but the
picture in Bestfeeding is a chilling reminder of all the things a
bottle-fed baby misses out on.
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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