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Bottle feeding

The practice of feeding an infant with a substitute for breast

milk. E.g. cow’s milk or powdered milk.

Disadvantages of bottle feeding

 Bottles can easily be contaminated the milk

 Bottles are difficult to clean

 Powdered milk is time consuming and difficult to pre-

pare

 Cow’s or tinned powdered milk is expensive to

buy

 Some cow’s milk or powdered milk may be dilut-

ed so much causing milk lack complete diet.

 Powdered milk is preserved with chemicals that

may have health consequences later in life

 Baby may get digestion problems.

 Bottle-fed babies tend to have more health prob-

lems than breastfed ones