Exploration of Responsive Feeding During Breastfeeding Versus Bottle Feeding of Human Milk: A Within-Subject Pilot Study

• Published in: Breastfeeding medicine Vol. 14; no. 7; p. 482
• Main Authors: Whitfield, Kyly C, Ventura, Alison K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.09.2019
• Subjects: Adult; Bottle Feeding; Breast Feeding; Cross-Sectional Studies; Cues; Feeding Behavior; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant Behavior; Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Infant, Newborn; Maternal Behavior; Mother-Child Relations - psychology; Mothers - psychology; Nova Scotia - epidemiology; Pilot Projects; Social Class; Nova Scotia; bottle feeding; satiety; mother–infant dyad; breastfeeding; behavior; responsive feeding

Responsive feeding promotes optimal feeding patterns and growth trajectories. Breastfeeding is thought to facilitate responsive feeding, but research to date has been limited to comparing formula-feeding and breastfeeding dyads. Using a within-subject approach, we aimed to assess maternal responsive...