I am not saying that apnea cannot happen with cup feeding.  However, I
believe we need to be carerful about suggesting that apnea will
frquently/nearly always? happen with cup feeding.  This method of feeding
when baby cannot be at breast is used routinely in many parts of the world
where bottle-feeding is too expensive and too dangerous (insufficient
cleaning opprotunities availalbe).  When I have seen this done by
experienced midwives in these settings, they never mentioned apneic babies,
nor did the babies look anything but bright-eyed and quite interested in
this mode of feeding, which usually was used before baby could go to breast
(we we are talking about small babies, premies and SGAs).



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