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Is there a difference between bottle feeding breast milk and breastfeeding?

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Yes: The kid is a better milk extractor than your attempts at pumping and natural feeding stimulates milk production better. The kid also gains a certain level of closeness /hearing your heartbeat/ smelling your natural scent that is hard to duplicate with a bottle.However, you must do whatever it takes so you both make it through the process.

Answered 5/7/2016

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