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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Breast Feeding - Help
Message-ID: <1632@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 01:40:17 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 24 01:40:17 1985
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In article <1652@hammer.UUCP> bethb@hammer.UUCP (Beth Bonness) writes:
>Regarding type of bottles and nipples.  The only problems we had with
>nipples was that Kalah would suck as hard on the bottle nipple as she did on
>my nipple and would choke because the milk would come out so much
>faster.  What we had to do was find the smallest holed nipple.

While Karen was in the hospital with Adam, I read the propaganda sheet
from the NUK people about how wonderful their nipples were.  Basically
their claim was that the NUK nipple was shaped in a way that duplicated
the breast *when it's in the babie's mouth*.  (This is a bit hard to
believe but they had an illustration that indicated that this weird
shape - the same shape you see on the NUK pacifier you probably got as
a freebie at the hospital - is how the breast goes in the mouth.)

Anyway, the claim is that it's HARDER for the baby to get milk from
a NUK nipple, because the baby has to use a certain tounge motion.
They described this as "beneficial exercise" and felt it to be the
major reason why their nipples are wonderful.  The claim is that the
other "standard" (Gerber, etc) nipples practically choke the baby
on the milk.

We never actually got very many NUK nipples, because they are almost
impossible to find in stores, and because the Gerber arrangement
comes with a cap that makes the bottle very portable - this is a
major convenience.  But if you wanted to take Gerber bottles, rings,
and caps, and insert NUK nipples, at considerable extra cost, it
would probably work.

	Mark