BREAST FEEDING VS. BOTTLE FEEDING
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In a discussion of eating disorders in relation to food and feeding in infancy and the early childhood years, Brazelton and Sparrow (2004) point out that one of the keys to healthy eating as an adult is associated with whether a child's earliest interaction with food was a strain or a struggle. While for any given child, what constitutes strain or struggle can differ, Brazelton and Sparrow's remarks bring up the question of whether, generally, it is less of a strain on the child to be breast-fed or to be bottle fed. The purpose of this paper is to compare breast feeding with bottle feeding in order to determine which mode of feeding the infant is associated with less strain, and more comfort for the infant.Bottle Feeding and Breast Feeding: A Comparison In general, the literature on breast feeding and bottle feeding and stress on mother and/or infant is relatively mixed with various factors placing stress on the mother/child bor both breast and bottle feeding. Hollowell (2004), for example, states that while there is no doubt that breast feeding is the best source of nutrition, this does not necessarily mean that it is the right method of feeding for most infants. For example, about two percent of mothers cannot breast feed for medical reasons. Moreover, if a mother lacks family support in helping her with the new born, there is a likelihood that she will grow frustrated and impatient with the breast feeding process, making the entire situation stressful on herself and
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r Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Ponza, Devaney, Ziegler, Reidy and Squatrito (2004) found no differences in the health of formula fed and breast fed infants. The mean nutrient intake was high in both groups. However, it was observed that as children aged and began to eat solid foods, many WIC mothers failed to provide their children with balanced and nutritious meals.
In some cases, children rarely ate fruit or vegetables. It was concluded that it was the period after being breast or bottle fed that placed children at highest risk. However, the authors did not assess the stress levels of mothers and/or infants involved in their study, so it is possible that even while both groups of infants had high nutrition value, some were subjected to more stress than others in relation to mothers' choices to breast feed or bottle feed.
What is interesting is that some studies have suggested that it is possible that while breast feeding is not stressful to a child, and may be even less stressful than bottle feeding in that it is more convenient for the mother, weaning the child from the breast may be quite stressful, more so than weaning the child from formula (Sibolboro-Mezzacappa, Tu & Meyers, 2003). Specifically, there are indicat
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