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Kathy Leeper says, 
 
<<I don't think there are any references pertaining to nipple  confusion 
directly.

It is anecdotal experience (as is much of what we  do).  In my experience it 
is usually bottle PREFERENCE rather than  actual "confusion" that causes a 
baby to refuse the breast after having  bottles.  >>
 
 
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You might want to ask these docs if they ever recommend to a breastfeeding  
mother that she start giving the baby a bottle at _____ age.  If they say  yes, 
ask why.  Generally the answer is that if the baby isn't given a  bottle by X 
age, he'll refuse it.
 
You can then say, "I rest my case."
 
(There are lots of other things you can use instead of that example -- such  
as, did they ever have a baby that would only take one type of pacifier?   One 
type of bottle nipple?  Preferred one breast over the other???)
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, Wheaton IL
_www.lactationeducationconsultants.com_ 
(http://www.lactationeducationconsultants.com/) 
"I  would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there 
isn't,  than live my life as though there isn't, and die to find out there 
is." - Albert  Camus


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