Breastfeeding

Using the bottle to feed breast Milk

By Dr. Fatin Tamim

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What things should you consider when giving a bottle to your baby, What if the baby refuses to take the bottle?

You are away for work, and your baby is with another caretaker that has your breast milk but needs to give it to your child. A cup or a spoon can be used but when you choose to use a bottle for this purpose .

You should consider the following when using bottles for your baby :

It is best to start offering the bottle between 3-6 weeks of age.

where before it may affect breastfeeding and the baby may develop nipple confusion.

The best bottle that can be used to give your baby the expressed breast milk is the one the baby prefers regardless of its kind.
Choose one type of nursing bottles and give it a try and change if the child refuses to accept it after several attempts.
Only use nipples that are made especially for newborns.

This will prevent nipple confusion and it will also prevent the unwanted increase of milk intake.

Choose the smaller sized nipples

What if the baby refuses to take the bottle?

Note that some babies accept the bottle from the first time while others do not accept it easily.
Some babies may refuse to take the bottle from the mother, but may accept it from someone else.

You may need to stay out of the room or outside the home before your baby accepts the bottle. You may need to leave the house for several hours and for several days, but in the end most of babies do accept it.

You may need to change the milk temperature to reach the degree that is accepted or change several industrial nipples to find the appropriate one for your baby
You can use a cup: from the first day your baby is born a cup can be used.

The cup is placed on the lower lip of your baby and the milk in the cup is raised to the level of the lower lip. Slowly pour it into the baby's mouth and he shall swallow it. A spoon or syringe can be used too.

Dr. Fatin Tamim

Fatin Tamim is a wife and mother of three children, who spent life hard-working, studying, and participating in raising community health awareness and related activities. She is a Ph.D. candidate, nutritionist, public health specialist, and maternal and child health specialist. She is the first specialized Lactation Consultant working in a private lactation consultation clinic in Jordan. Most of her clinical experience (1991-2007) was at Ministry of Health, Jordan, as a trainer and coordinator of breastfeeding counseling & management program as well as in Baby Friendly Hospital Initiation program and accreditation at a pediatric hospital, medical educator and coordinator, nurse-midwife supervisor, nurse-midwife of a primary health care centers, and nurse-midwife in emergency, medical, surgical, neonatal, labor and delivery units in
governmental hospitals. Interested in and assisted in several research studies done by researchers at Jordan University of Science & Technology. She was a research assistant in a randomized clinical trial study titled by "Maternal Nutrition during Labor", published in Jordan Medical Journal, 2007. Additional to research experiences, she had performed a case-control study titled by “A comparison between the effects of different patterns of maternal nutrition during labor on labor and birth outcomes”. She loves babies and interested in supporting mamas, helping them, managing their health issues step by step, considering the members of her family

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You should consider the following when using bottles for your baby :

It is best to start offering the bottle between 3-6 weeks of age.

where before it may affect breastfeeding and the baby may develop nipple confusion.

The best bottle that can be used to give your baby the expressed breast milk is the one the baby prefers regardless of its kind.
Choose one type of nursing bottles and give it a try and change if the child refuses to accept it after several attempts.
Only use nipples that are made especially for newborns.

This will prevent nipple confusion and it will also prevent the unwanted increase of milk intake.

Choose the smaller sized nipples

What if the baby refuses to take the bottle?

Note that some babies accept the bottle from the first time while others do not accept it easily.
Some babies may refuse to take the bottle from the mother, but may accept it from someone else.

You may need to change the milk temperature to reach the degree that is accepted or change several industrial nipples to find the appropriate one for your baby
You can use a cup: from the first day your baby is born a cup can be used.

Using the bottle to feed breast Milk

You should consider the following when using bottles for your baby :

It is best to start offering the bottle between 3-6 weeks of age.

The best bottle that can be used to give your baby the expressed breast milk is the one the baby prefers regardless of its kind.

Choose one type of nursing bottles and give it a try and change if the child refuses to accept it after several attempts.

Only use nipples that are made especially for newborns.

Choose the smaller sized nipples

What if the baby refuses to take the bottle?

Note that some babies accept the bottle from the first time while others do not accept it easily.

Some babies may refuse to take the bottle from the mother, but may accept it from someone else.

You may need to change the milk temperature to reach the degree that is accepted or change several industrial nipples to find the appropriate one for your baby