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Isn cup feeding best when breastfeeding is not an option?

April 26, 2017best breastfeeding Cup feeding option

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Isn cup feeding best when breastfeeding is not an option?

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Cup feeding is recommended primarily for use with hospitalised infants and others who have serious medical anomalies that inhibit them from suckling. Researchers believe that sucking is important to facial and jaw muscle development. Suckling in breastfeeding, and undoubtedly bottle feeding with a suitably small aperture, encourages muscle development that later affects proper dental development and speech characteristics. Long-term cup feeding a baby who can suck deprives the infant of suckling that is important to correct development. A breastfeeding infant uses the muscles involved in suckling up to 2,500 times each day!