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Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:27:36 EDT
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Dear Friends:
    Debra Beckman, the speech and language pathologist,  who has developed a 
thorough and detailed method for working with oral-motor  problems in infants, 
said at the International Conference in Orlando this past  January that 
healthy babies should be able to go back and forth between bottles  and breast. 
(www.beckmanoralmotor.com)
    That explained something to me, about those mothers  who come from 
cultures where pregnancy milk (colostrum) is deemed bad or wrong  for babies. They 
bottle feed for the first few days, until the milk volume  increases, and then 
go on the breastfeed for years. There is no fuss, no  confusion.
    Perhaps the babies that can't go  between breast and bottle feeding have 
some oral-motor weakness that  is compensated by one feeding method and 
prevents them from being  flexible?
    Does anyone know what happens with babies who have  nipple or flow 
confusion as they mature? Do they develop speech defects?
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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