What are the advantages of bottle-feeding?
Feeding your baby a commercially prepared infant formula does have some advantages: Anyone can do it. Formula, bottles and nipples are readily available, and anyone can feed your baby with them. Your baby may eat fewer times a day. Formula doesn’t digest as easily and quickly as breast milk does, so your baby may be hungry less often. There’s enough vitamin D. Infant formula provides all the vitamin D a baby needs. Breastfed babies may need vitamin D supplements. Nutrition needs will be met. A baby with typical dietary needs will grow and develop on infant formula. You can eat and drink what you want. For example, you won’t need to limit your coffee intake because of the effects of caffeine on your baby.
