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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, and what is wrong with this.  It's not ok to deny parenting time over breastfeeding.  Mom can pump, breastfeed and occasionally use a bottle to get baby ready for dad or other caretakers.[/quote]

One of my kids wouldn’t take a bottle until she was almost 6 months old. We had a lot of motivation and tried 15 bottle types, but she was stubborn. She would have been dangerously dehydrated on this judge’s parenting plan. [/quote]

According to the article, that's not at all what happened here. Mom is trying to say she can't pump enough, etc. and that ex can visit the baby while she's there to bf. Ex is saying she won't believe the relationship is over and is using bf as an excuse to try to make him spend time with her and not give him alone time with the baby. As another pp mentioned, the baby is old enough for some solids so this all is really a non issue at this point.[/quote]

Just “some solids” and no liquids for a 48 hour stretch is not healthy for any infant.[/quote]

Yet millions of babies can do it in the care of others. [/quote]

^ meaning they can and will learn to accept a bottle, they don’t succumb to dehydration. [/quote]

And until that happens they are hungry and thirsty and miserable and confused. When we had this at daycare, I had to leave work and go nurse the baby in the daytime. Yes she eventually learned but I wouldn’t leave my child in the care (paid or otherwise) of someone who would leave a baby hungry while they learned to use a bottle rather than calling their mother. [/quote]

Was your baby 8 months old at the time?[/quote]

I went back to work at 6M so slightly younger but still too young in both cases to rely on anything but breast milk/formula.[/quote]

So for 6 months you raced back and forth to the daycare to nurse a baby, until it was 1 year old?[/quote]

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