How to Bottle Feed a Breastfed Baby: Pediatrician & OB/GYN Parents Explain Paced Bottle Feeds

Feeding & Nutrition

Doctors Kurt and Sarah Bjorkman, a board certified pediatrician and OB/GYN, use this week's episode to share 6 key tips to bottle feeding a breastfed baby with paced bottle feeding. They also use their own baby to help demonstrate these techniques to hopefully help you better give your baby that breastmilk you've worked so hard to collect!Paced bottle feeding can help maintain a good breastfeeding relationship between mother and baby, while also working to avoid confusion for the baby when switching between direct breastfeeding and bottle feeding.

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Sarah Bjorkman, MD, board-certified OB/GYN

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