While Danica was treated for her infection, the emergency veterinarian assistants fed her puppies with supplementary bottles — Danica was in no condition to feed them herself. (animalcenter.org)
Supplementary bottle feeds or introducing other liquids of foods will also interfere with the frequency of breastfeeding and should be avoided to maintain the proper hormonal balance in the mother (breastfeeding-babies.com)
If that's the case, then would someone please tell the hospitals, who — according to a new study by the Boston University School of Public Health — may unwittingly discourage breast - feeding by creating «nipple confusion» with supplementary bottles and pacifiers? (npr.org)