Not exact matches
If you're especially concerned about nipple confusion, you can have a caregiver use a
cup or even a straw
cup to
feed expressed
breastmilk.
If your baby is willing to give up breastfeeding sessions but isn't interested in drinking from a bottle or
cup, put some of your
breastmilk on the spout or bottle nipple to give your baby a taste of what he or she is used to at the beginning of each
feed.
You can
feed your baby expressed
breastmilk with a
cup until they are ready to breastfeed.
There are few disadvantages of
feeding your baby
breastmilk from a
cup, however, there are a few things to consider:
There are several ways to
feed expressed
breastmilk to your baby, such as from a
cup, a syringe or a bottle.
In Papua New Guinea, the sale of
feeding bottles,
cups, teats and dummies is strictly controlled, and there is a ban on advertising these products as well as
breastmilk substitutes.
Tip: It is difficult to predict how much caffeine your baby will get through your
breastmilk, but sticking to one
cup a day, and
feeding your baby before drinking caffeinated beverages, then waiting three hours before breastfeeding again, will reduce the risk.
Breastmilk substitutes should be
fed by
cup.
«For those few health situations where infants can not, or should not, be breastfed, the choice of the best alternative - expressed breast milk from an infant's own mother,
breastmilk from a healthy wet - nurse or human - milk bank, or a breast - milk substitute
fed with a
cup...» [3]
Cup -
feeding may be particularly useful when small volumes of
breastmilk / colostrum are being given and during emergency situations.
Other topics are thawing
breastmilk, transporting
breastmilk, and
cup feeding.
I mostly worried with the first as she completely refused to breastfeed from day one and screamed for the first 4 months of her life for hours on end (so she was bottle
fed: / Did give her
cups of
breastmilk when I had my second)..
However, if this is the case you may like to consider expressing some
breastmilk and
feeding it from a bottle or sippy
cup to the baby or babies who are unable to be breastfed during a session.