Bottle-feeding children is an addiction of parents. There are many reasons for the bottle feeding. Lack of awareness about its harmful effects, the cultural practices and a few obvious benefits such as the child sleeps well at night soon after getting bottle-feeds, are the reasons for it. Until a bout of gastro or a beginning of tooth decay, often parents do not realize that they need to stop the bottle. Many parents continue it in spite of the child suffering from bottle related illnesses, because, the benefits (?) are too attractive.
How does bottle feeding start? Usually it starts as a replacement to breast feeding or in addition to it. Following could be the reasons for the initiation of the use of bottle in a child: It starts when the parent feels that the child remains hungry even after the feeding; i.e. if the mother thinks that the breast-feeding is insufficient for satisfying…
