Fact: Breastfeeding directly from the
breast offers significant benefits over bottlefeeding expressed breastmilk for both mother and infant, including, among others: infant jaw development, infant control of milk flow, psychological attachment of infant to mother, health benefits for mother that
pumping the
breast does not achieve, infant's ability to feed
on demand, the stimulation and maintenance of mother» smilk supply that
pumping alone can not achieve (and some women can not successfully
pump), avoidance of problems such as that some babies will not move back and forth easily between bottle and
breast, nutritional variation of milk during the breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the
breast is always fresh and free of contaminents.