Re: [ozmidwifery] breast/bottle

[Kirsten Blacker]

on the contrary there is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding is LESS energy demanding than bottle feeding. Do a search of the lactnet archives as this has been discussed in the past   http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lactnet.html   Kirsten Blacker ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:13 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] breast/bottle Is there any research that supports breast is more taxing than bottle for the premature newborn . the paed says only 2 b/f in 24hrs and the other [ 6] gavage or bottle .Its a fight to increase b/f in this active well fattening up boy born at 32 weeks and now 10 days old back to birth weight and rooting around for the breast .No problem with milk supply jan