![]() ![]() Infants took the most milk in the least time and stayed calmest with the paladai 14. One study compared the use of a bottle, cup and a paladai in 100 newborn babies. Mothers in India have used a small spouted cup called a paladai for centuries. ![]() Here is a clip of cup feeding from his International Breastfeeding Centre: ![]() Jack Newman is a Canadian paediatrician and breastfeeding expert. Notice how the baby’s tongue extends to lap the milk. In the following short clip from Global Health Media, a premature baby is cup feeding. Continue to tip the cup enough to keep the milk at the rim of cup resting lightly on baby’s lower lip.Leave the cup in position when baby pauses to rest between swallows and is not drinking, avoid putting pressure on the lower lip.DO NOT pour the milk into his mouth, go slowly always keeping the milk just at the rim of the cup.Your baby will quickly learn to sip or lap milk from the rim of the cup with his tongue.Tip the cup just enough so that milk reaches the rim of the cup, don’t put the cup too far into baby’s mouth.Rest the rim of the cup lightly on your baby’s lower lip or their lower gum ridge.Never cup feed a baby who is lying flat on their back Sit your baby in a comfortable, upright position on your lap.If needed, wrap your baby to prevent him knocking the cup out of your hands.Ensure your baby is fully awake, alert and interested in feeding.Half fill or two thirds fill a small cup with slightly warmed breast milk or infant formula.You can also buy little plastic cups specially for the purpose which can be shaped slightly during feeding. You may need a cloth under baby’s chin in case any milk spills. The following description is summarised from the video above. Use a small cup with a smooth edge such as a medicine cup, sherry glass or shot glass-your maternity hospital may give you one. The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 12 states cup feeding may help preserve breastfeeding and the World Health Organisation 13 recommends cups or spoons rather than bottles and teats for premature babies. 9 However more recent studies have found the opposite - more cup fed babies were exclusively breastfeeding at discharge, and beyond, with no apparent increase in hospital stay for term 10, late preterm 11 and premature babies (Penny et al. One review found cup feeding had no significant benefit in maintaining breastfeeding after discharge from hospital and that the length of hospital stay was likely to be a lot longer with cup feeding in some settings. Not suitable for sleepy babies as there is a risk of choking.Ĭan cup feeding help preserve breastfeeding?.Long term cup feeding can dampen the sucking reflex or create a preference for the cup.There can be a lot of spilled and wasted milk compared with bottle feeding or tube feeding 8.There is a risk of aspiration or choking if cup feeding is not done correctly.Cup feeding can begin from as early as 29 weeks gestational age. Open cups are easily available, inexpensive and very easy to clean in resource poor areas or emergencies compared with teats, bottles or feeding tubes.Cup feeding can prepare a baby for breastfeeding. Feeding technique (use of muscles) while cup feeding is thought to be closer to breastfeeding than using a bottle 6 and may help prepare a baby for breastfeeding by encouraging the tongue to come forward for lapping/sipping.Studies show cup feeding premature babies instead of using bottles can increase the number of babies who breastfeed and increase the length of time they breastfeed 4 5 Cup feeding may help preserve breastfeeding by avoiding bottles.A premature baby can feed at his own pace which may improve his oxygen saturation and heart rate making him more physiologically stable 1 2 3 Better oxygen saturation and heart rate.Need to look something up? Baby must be awake and alert to cup feed Pros and cons of cup feeding Advantages of cup feeding This article looks at the pros and cons of cup feeding and how to cup feed a newborn baby. However, there are disadvantages as well as advantages to cup feeding. It is thought to be a useful short-term alternative to using a bottle teat as it avoids a baby getting confused by the different sucking action required on an artificial bottle nipple (nipple preference/confusion). It can also be used for supplementing a baby who is not getting enough milk or for a baby who is separated from his mother for a while. Cup feeding is an alternative to bottle feeding if a baby can’t latch to the breast and needs to be given some milk. ![]()
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