A 49-year-old member asked:
What is the difference between bottle feeding breast milk and nursing an infant?
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Dr. Deborah Ungerleider answered
35 years experience in Pediatrics
Both give the same: nutritional value, which is extremely important. Nursing allows a different, closer bonding of mother and baby. However, if nursing is not possible, it is certainly worthwhile and beneficial to the baby to give the expressed breast milk by a bottle.
Answered on Feb 21, 2016
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Dr. Amrita Dosanjh commented
35 years experience in Pediatric Pulmonology
There are many benefits to breast feeding including evidence that babies who are breast fed for at least four months have fewer infections.
Mar 22, 2015
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