Why is it that it takes one bad experience related to breastfeeding
or an alternative feeding method to get some HCPs to "throw out the
baby with the bathwater"?!  Would they react so quickly to a baby
that aspirated from a bottle?  Probably not-they'd concentrate on
the technique, not the container.

While trying to get them to reconsider, you might want, as an
interim, to consider either the Haberman feeder (I have no
commercial interest in either items), which at least reduces SOME of
the differences between breast and standard bottle, or the new
"breastbottle".  We have had a few moms try the latter for babies
who totally refuse bottles and all have reported success.  We just
got another order and hope to trial them in those cases where we
will be feeding a nursing baby other than at breast.
These methods don't appear to be as drastically different from the
more traditional bottle, so may be easier for some people to
accept.  Once they accept these, it may be easier to obtain
consideration of other more "radical" alternate feding methods.
Winnie Mading RNC, IBCLC - who has learned over the years to be
grateful for the small gains while working toward the ideal.

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