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