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From: smuga@mtuxo.UUCP (j.smuga)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Breast Feeding - Help
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 16:06:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 16:06:25 1985
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> > My wife and I are due in February, so naturally we are starting to
> > look around and see what to get.  Although my wife intends to breast
> > feed, I expect that there will be the occasional need for a bottle
> > (especially when we wean the baby off the breast eventually).
> > 
> > What is your experience:  what type of bottle to use?  
> 
>   In our experience we didn't need a bottle.  Both our girls were
>   breastfed for approx. 9 months each.  They went directly to one of
>   those baby drinking cups.

Same here.  My breastfed babies rejected both bottles and pacifiers.
They did like to suck on their own fingers.
Frankly, I was just as glad not to have bottles to wash.
> 
> > Is it important to get one of those machines for taking milk out of
> > the breast and saving it, and if so, which machine?
> 
>   It depends.  If the baby's mother will be working, it will be
>   important to express milk and bottle it (so in this case maybe you
>   will need a bottle?).  As far as using a machine to express the
>   milk (our family's collective opinion):  hand expression is preferred.
> -- 
Ditto.
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