Abstract

In Reply.— The issue that seemed to cause the most concern stemmed from our comment about not finding support for the nipple confusion hypothesis. Certainly, there was no intent on our part to deny that some infants have difficulty with the latching on and sucking patterns necessary for breast-feeding. In our study, our point was merely that the vast majority of participants had babies who alternated between bottle and breast early in the postpartum period and subsequently for prolonged breast-feeding periods.

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