There are supplementary feeding systems that allow a mother who is not producing milk or is producing insufficient milk to feed the baby either formula or donated breast milk. These use a small plastic tube that is taped to the mother's breast with the opening near her own nipple.
The purpose is to allow the baby to learn to nurse at the breast and to stimulate the mother's own milk production.
Whether this is relevant to the situation in this article is impossible to tell because the writing is so completely upwhacked.
Thank you for the explanation. That was my guess of what the author meant.
I think poor writing skills are a prerequisite in journalism today.
“Upwhacked”
Not side-whacked?