Having
bottle fed my children, I consider myself an expert on bottle feeding (at least, as much of an expert as Ms. Neovard is on breast feeding).
So, you can breastfeed or
bottle feed your child during this stage.
This is because you not only have a place to kick your feet up if you want to catch some shut eye, you also have several different options when it comes to the position you can nurse or
bottle feed your child in.
I know plenty of perfectly healthy, intelligent
bottle fed children.
Babies do not come with manuals and there is no golden rule saying that you have to
bottle feed your child by a certain or even bottle feed them at all.
If
you bottle feed your child, make sure that you hold the bottle at an angle where the nipple is completely filled with milk rather than a mixture of milk and air.
Even though I am a stay at home mom and can breast feed without any bottles it helps enormously to be able to have my husband or mom
bottle feed my child if I need a break.
It's silly to think that if
you bottle feed your children they're destined to be a loser.
This means that it's possible for someone else to
bottle feed your child using your breast milk, even when you're not there - at daycare, for example.
I never considered, not once,
bottle feeding my child.
Co-sleeping has way less safety risks (almost none) when it is a nursing mother and child as opposed to
a bottle fed child.
The small differences in IQ points between breast fed and
bottle fed children, 21 and between children breast fed for less than five months or more than five months, 10 are unlikely to have clinical significance.
Not exact matches
The pope has no way of knowing how this
child is
fed, it could be
bottle fed or it's probably a Gerber baby, who knows?
But it is comforting to realize that the techniques of
child - raising once thought to be crucial — breast or
bottle feeding, time of weaning or toilet training, spanking or not spanking — are insufficient criteria for explaining behavioral and emotional reactions of
children.
Most recently, we partnered with
Feed the
Children to provide nearly 3 million
bottles of water to those affected in the Flint, MI water crisis and more than 1.2 million
bottles of water to communities impacted by the catastrophic floods in Louisiana.
Of course, there are options for women to pump their milk to offer their
child a
bottle, but for women who struggle to even produce enough milk to keep their hungry baby satisfied, anything other than formula -
feeding isn't always an option.
Home to discussions about breastfeeding basics,
feeding on cue, extended breastfeeding, comfort nursing,
bottle nursing, introducing solids, gentle weaning, coping with toddler pickiness, creating healthy eating habits in older
children and more.
Julie from Julie's Health Club on the Chicago Tribune asks, «if it's OK for
children to mimic
bottle feeding a baby, why shouldn't they be encouraged to breastfeed a baby?
So I just don't get the «too much pressure to breastfeed» when all around me are images of
bottles, ads for formula telling me a happy
feeding makes a happy mom, bottlefeeding moms, moms and doctors and nurses telling new moms that formula is «just as good» and «not to feel guilty», women getting «the look» for nursing in public, or feeling weird about doing it (I sure did)-- to me, any pressure out there is NOT to breastfeed, or do it as little as possible (not if it's not immediately easy or you don't love every minute, not past 6 mos, not in public, not around male relatives and friends, not around
children, not if you ever want to go out alone sometime...)
Baby
bottles are supposed to be BPA - free, but there's something offputting to me about
feeding my
child with plastic
bottles.
Where water is unsafe a
bottle -
fed child is up to 25 times more likely to die as a result of diarrhea than a breastfed
child.
It's understandable if you have to get back to work after having a baby and don't have time to sit and hold your
child while
bottle feeding.
Whether
bottle feeding is something you had to do or if you chose it, be confident that your
child is being well provided for and that they love you so much!
When you're weaning your baby from breast to
bottle feeding, you'll still want to keep your
child close by for mealtimes.
You don't want to think about getting sick with anything serious while your
child is a baby, but even a small illness such as the flu could constitute the need to transition your baby to solid foods or
bottle -
feeding depending on the severity of the problem.
While
feeding your baby formula in a
bottle can certainly be convenient if you're on the go or need to leave your
child with a family member or sitter during the day, it isn't a requirement.
As your
child heads into toddlerhood, he needs to transition into using a sippy cup or straw cup, whether he's been breastfed or
bottle -
fed.
If your
child has suddenly stopped nursing or
bottle -
feeding his or her usual amount, this may be a sign your little one has gotten sick or is suffering from a sore throat.
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child dyad with
feeding education and support, whether by breast or by
bottle
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If you're breastfeeding your
child and having difficulty weaning him or her from breast to
bottle -
feeding or sippy cups, the problem may lie with your
child's co sleeping habits.
Even if you are unwilling to breastfeed your
child, you can learn the basic of
bottle or formula -
feeding from them as well.
Children who grow up never seeing breastfeeding at home and only seeing
bottle -
feeding on TV or in their books are surely less likely to want to breastfeed their own babies when the time comes.
She said she did this with 1
child and that
child switched between breast and
bottle feeding very well when she went back to work after her maternity leave.
Eventually, all
children will be weaned from breastfeeding,
bottle feeding, and sippy cups, and all
children will start drinking cow's milk (or soy milk) and eating solid foods.
She said with her next
child she
fed a
bottle at 1 month.
You may find that your
child is more interested in eating at the table which can make
bottle or breast
feeding more difficult.
Breast
feeding does not always come naturally to the mother or
child, and if it remains a problem after giving it fair try (about two weeks), many pediatricians advise the mother to switch her infant to
bottles.
Your baby may protest at first, especially since he or she may be under the impression that proximity to you means on demand
feeding sessions, but eventually, your
child will learn to expect nursing or
bottle -
feeding at the appropriate times only.
In that study,
children who were
bottle fed were 1.84 times more likely to have malocclusions than
children who were breastfed.
Not shame that my babies have received
bottles, no, I have absolutely no shame that I've
fed my
children as I needed to.
It is often not a choice, but a necessity to formula
feed and I will not hesitate to give my second
child a
bottle at the first sign of a problem.
I just wanted my
child to get a lot of my antibodies that I didn't get from my mom (because I was
bottle fed).
Places like supermarkets or Walmarts are not» breastfeeding - friendly» for their staffs, and the
children are most likely far away in childcare, not in an adjacent creche, so pumping and refrigerating / freezing milk at work for later
feedings by
bottle is not practical, if possible at all.
A
bottle -
feeding mom can measure the exact amount of breast milk or formula that their
child is getting.
i would also like to know if it is safe
feeding the baby with a small cup instaed of the
bottle in case where the
child is not comfortable with the
bottle or does not
feed well using the
bottle.
With
bottle feeding you do get some «smug» breastfeeders treating you like you've failed your
child somehow.
Children who are already holding a
bottle might take more readily to a cup than a
child who has been
fed exclusively from the breast, for example, even though this is not always the case.
Bottle feeding is a wonderful time for nurturing and bonding between parent and
child.