i have herd ppl say breast feed ur baby alot?

Question

whats the difference from bottle feeding them.?

Answer 1

Breastfeeding is the way babies are meant to be fed. Fake feeding is a new invention propagated by pharmaceutical corporations to make women mistrust their bodies and feed their babies an inferior food that cost a lot of money.

Artificial feeding is also the reason breast cancer rates have skyrocketed in this country. Breastfeeding significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer for the mother and has innumerable health benefits for the infant.

The bonding thing is crap. My husband never fed our baby until he was 6 months and eating some solids, yet they are bonded. They bonded over baths, diaper changes, rocking to sleep, being carried in the sling and bedtime stories etc... Americans have a bizzare notion that food=love. There are better ways for other family members to connect, feeding an infant is the mother's job. Formula also has been connected to obesity later in life.

Formula is a laboratory concoction made of cow's milk, vegetable fats and sugar with a bunch of artificial vitamins thrown in to provide barely adequate survival nutrition for desperate situations. It will never be a whole, living food like mother's milk. It is for those who, sadly, cannot feed their babies the way nature intended. It is not a "choice." It is an emergency food substitute that women have been tricked into thinking is "just as good" as the milk that a mother makes for her baby.

Answer 2

Breastfeeding or bottle feeding it's a personal choice. Breast milk is best for many reasons. One it has the exact things a baby needs to grow and its all natural. Two breast milk has antibodies from the mother, which babies are born without. So if there is sickness around a breastfeed baby usually is less sick. Three breastfeeding uses muscles in the jaw that help develop better speech earlier. Bottle feeding is okay but formula is made is a lab and tested. But you can still make a strong bond which ever is decided.

Answer 3

Breastfeeding: free
Bottlefeeding: must buy formula, bottles & paraphanalia

Breastmilk: offers living antibodies and immunities against many common illnesses, in addition to nutrition designed perfectly for each baby
Formula: offers adequate nutrition for most babies

Breastfeeding: speeds mom's recovery, can help control postpartum bleeding, shrink the uterus down further than without bf, helps stabilize mother's hormones following birth, lose more pregnancy weight, more quickly...
Bottlefeeding: allows mom to sleep while others feed & care for baby in early postpartum

Breastfeeding: can be difficult, even painful, for the first few weeks
Bottlefeeding: can be time consuming and a PITA to prepare, sterilize equipment, mix, measure, etc.

Breastfeeding: promotes skin-to-skin contact (essential for babies to thrive), releases hormones that promote bonding and motherly tenderness, requires a certain amount of holding during feedings from the day of birth until baby is weaned
Bottlefeeding: allows other to feed baby so mom can have a break, requires little contact if you aren't feeling partilarly touchy-feely; many moms *plan* to hold, gaze at, coo at (etc.) their babies during every bottlefeeding but as time goes on, resort to less contact & socialization-- many moms "can't wait" until baby can hold their own bottle, etc.

Breastfeeding: can lower risk of breast cancer for both mother *and* baby (girls)
Bottlefeeding:

There are a ton of others. Not everything about bottlefeeding is blatantly negative, but not much about it is really blatantly positive, either. Breastfeeding comes out the winner in *practically* every category. The only thing bottlefeeding is superior in, is allowing others to feed baby. And ask any mom who bottlefed-- how much does any husband *really* get up in the night for feedings after those first two or three days home from the hospital?!?

Answer 4

There is all the obvious stuff... breastfeeding is cheaper because you don't have to buy bottles and formula... it's easier because you don't have to worry about sterilising bottles and teats or getting up in the middle of the night and measuring out water and formula...

Breastmilk is also a lot purer... it's designed by your body specifically for your baby so it contains all the right antibodies and nutrients. It increases your babies immune system and helps to stop them getting sick or developing diseases.

It also helps to contract the uterus back into place after giving birth and helps the Mom to lose her pregnancy weight much easier.

Incidentally, when using artificial formula, there is also the risk of allergic reaction, contamination, pollution etc... and formula is usually high in fatty acids and contains less than 20 ingredients while breastmilk contains over 200 completely natural ingredients...

HTH!

Answer 5

there's so much of a difference btw breast feeding and bottle's. first off there's special pro-biotics that a woman passes to her baby during that process. the natural milk is healthier cause your gene's and the baby's are so close. Also there's the kangaroo thingy there. there's research that suggest babys being better off being in constant touch/contact with their mom just like kangaroo's do. there's mental and emotional things that happen too. it's very very hard but once you get the hang of it, it will be a good thing and easy for you.

do the right thing. no lab milk. breast milk.

Answer 6

I've done both. I do use formula in emergencies but I pump milk to bottle feed. Why? Breastmilk is much healther and nutritious and easier on the baby's tummy. All my friends who breastfed, their kids rarely got sick. Friends who formula fed, kids got sick more often and had more and smellier poo.

I allowed my daughter to wean herself from the breast. She's a very happy adjusted baby and I know it's largely due to breastfeeding.

Answer 7

Many good anwers so I will just stick with what has not been already said. Breast milk is digested much more easily than formula is. This is why bottle fed babies stay full longer and breast fed babies want to nurse more often. They digest it so much quicker they are hungry sooner. Wouldn't you want your baby to digest her food more easily and efficiently. Of course you would. I breastfed 4 until they were two.

Answer 8

Nurse on demand, so your baby can regulate supply and her own appetite.

The difference from bottle feeding is immense. Formula has been demonstrated to lower the IQ 10 points. That's a huge amount. Huge. In addition, formula raises the risk of diabetes and allergies and cancers. In fact, nursing lowers the risk of cancer in mom!

Another huge bonus from nursing is that the mom gets a hormone from nursing, oxytocin, that is 'the mothering hormone.' it produces feelings of well-being in mom.

Nursing is a great mothering tool - it will be the best way to comfort your child and when your child is sick, she will always eat/drink, unlike if she's on formula/food. Nursing on demand also produces kids who are very content and motivated to please mommy. It just helps mothering.

In addition, when a baby is nursed, they are held enough. Babies require holding in order for their brain cells to form connections. Amazing but true. Perhaps most important, when a mom nurses, she avoids separating from her child.

Because we are primates, our infants evolved to need primate style parenting to develop optimally. Primate moms - except us - never put their infants down at all. We should hold our babies, sleep with our babies, and of course, nurse on demand. More than 10 hours a week separation from mom in the first 3 years of life have very serious, devastating effects on a child. The ability to trust is hurt, social skills are hurt, cognitive skills are hurt, physical health is diminished, attachment to mom is hurt, dad is less approving of the baby. And, that's only the damage they can measure.

So, human milk is critical for proper development for the baby and proper mothering from the mother. Of course one has a choice, but truly this is like a choice between talking nicely to your wife and beating your wife. One day, formula will be looked upon as the birthright-stealing commodity it is.

It's not for nothing that the same people who make formula make treatments for diabetes, is it?

Answer 9

Big difference!!!
Breastfeeding is actually easier to do!!
No cleaning or heating up bottles in the middle of the night!!!!
+they say the baby will have less tummy troubles!!

Answer 10

nothing really the difference is weather or not you want to have the baby who will start getting teath bite you or the nipple of the bottle.

also formula is expensive and boobs are free. but if you can get assistance than formula becomes free too.

its really a personal choice that no one but the babys mom should be making. if you breast feed you have to be really careful about medications you are taking and you cant drink alcohol or do anything that is bad for you because everything you take into your body will come out in your breast milk.