Re: Digest Number 687

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Hi Nicola,

While I haven't seen anything in writing about introducing a bottle, it is

my experience over 16 years as an LC that at or around 6 weeks babies will

balk significantly at taking a bottle I also tell moms to introduce a

bottle as soon as breastfeeding is established, using the criteria you

outlined. I then have them, or someone else preferably, give a bottle of

EBM a couple of times per week so that the baby will continue to take it. I

can't count the times I have gotten hysterical calls from moms who are going

back to work at 6 weeks and the baby won't take a bottle from the caregiver,

even if for some reason they were taking one well earlier on and it wasn't

continued. I'd also love to see studies on this.

Val Banarie, IBCLC

Digest Number 687

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> 1. Best time to introduce bottles?

> Posted by: " nicolaobyrne " nicolaobyrne@... nicolaobyrne

> Date: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:03 am (PDT)

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> I was asked by a rep the other day had I ever seen a reference about

> not starting pumping and bottles in a breastfed infant until 6 weeks.

> I advise my clients to wait until breastfeeding is established- and

> that means they when can feed easily , no pain, easy latch , good

> established milk supply and weight gain. But definitely to wait for at

> least 3 weeks...

> Is there any studies out there ? Is it written in black and white

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> Thanks

> Nicola O'Byrne

> IBCLC

> Dublin Ireland

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