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Nicolas, 36 years old, father of 2 daughters (1 and 8 years old): “It’s a sacred moment. “
“It’s a privileged exchange between my daughter and me. It is not only important to participate in feeding the baby, it is just obvious for me and for my wife! I am very naturally involved in all tasks including the bottle. She always clings to my arm when she drinks it, and I love it! If the bottles of the first nights are less fun … I advise everyone to take the time to live these fleeting moments so magical. I still enjoy it a little with my daughter who is one year old, because it will not last! “
Landry, dad of two children: “I’m not very cuddly, so that compensates …”
“We prefer that our son is breastfed as long as possible. But I give the bottle when my partner comes home late from work, for example. The rare times that I fed him were moments of privileged exchange with my son, of exchange of looks and smiles, moments where we can talk with his baby face to face. It is also a cuddly moment for me who is not very demonstrative. Due to my education, I prefer to play with my children than to cuddle them, it is less natural for me. “
Make every bottle-feeding moment a moment of love
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Adrien, father of a little girl: “I couldn’t wait to bottle-feed. “
“For me, the issue of breastfeeding or bottle feeding is something that mom has to decide on her own. But I was delighted that she decided to quickly switch to the bottle. At the beginning, I said to myself: ” As long as she drinks a lot, like that, she will sleep a long time ”. After restless nights despite gargantuan bottles (or a few quiet nights after scanty bottles), I understood that there was no link! And then, if we don’t give them the bottle, we stay a little outside in their first months! ”
The expert’s opinion
Dr Bruno Décoret, psychologist in Lyon and author of “Families” (economica ed.)
« These testimonies are fairly representative of today’s society, which has evolved a lot. These fathers are all happy to feed their babies, they get pleasure from it. On the other hand, the representation they have of the fact of bottle-feeding is not the same. The dominant representation of this act is that it is something fun, which can be part of their role as a father. But there is a variation in the role they attribute to the mother: one mentions it very little, another expresses a common choice with her, and the third makes a hierarchy, emphasizing that the breastfeeding is first and foremost the mother’s business. Here, what is good for the child is that it is not experienced as a constraint. Because it is not in itself the fact of sucking a breast that is essential from the point of view of attachment, it is the fact of being in the arms of a caring and loving person. It is good for parents to talk to each other about breastfeeding and to decide freely. “