Bottle is luxurious way of drinking milk. There is no waiting period, the moment the bottle is kept in the mouth, milk flows immediately by itself, and there is no effort involved on the part of the baby to get milk. The only work the baby has to do is, press the nipple once the mouth is full, therby stopping further milk flow and swallow it.

Comparing it with breast feeding, baby has to suck for a while and subsequnetly wait till the milk flow is initiated by what is called as let down reflex. No body likes to wait in this modern world. Then they will have to exert and suck actively to get the milk with lot of effort involved on the part of the baby. So, once the baby is used to the luxury of bottle, he may not be very much inclined for the breast, slowly the milk flow will decrease and one fine day he may say, “thank you mommy, I am comfortable with the bottleā€

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