Breastfeeding is truly a force of nature. But mamas, listen up—we'd be lying if we told you that breastfeeding isn't also hard. It can be stressful , and when it doesn't go as planned, it can make you feel like a total failure, even though so many moms struggle with breastfeeding. Getting a breastfed baby to take a bottle is one of the most prevalent breastfeeding issues among new moms according to Jamie Owens , RN and Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
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Breast or bottle …which is better? That all depends on you and your baby. Here's a list of some of the pros and cons of each:. Bottle-feeding these days is much easier than when my parents had to do it. Bottles can be adequately sterilized in a dishwasher, if you have one, and many bottles come with presterilized inserts that are disposable after each feeding. There are bottles of every shape, size, and material—including some that are decorated with your favorite cartoon characters your newborn probably hasn't had time to pick her favorites yet.
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Moms get berated for breastfeeding in public all the time, it seems. But what about when baby is fed from a bottle? What about Jill Harper, bottle- feeding mom, who was asked to leave Wyoming coffee house Percolation for giving her baby formula?
Feeding our babies whenever they were in need was one of the most nurturing parts of the class. But with my evil formula, I was disrupting the fellow yogis in a way I never could have predicted. Or did I feel like oversharing? My husband and I rushed home on a hour flight.