Breastfeeding & bottle feeding!
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I hear you. I am planning to breastfeed if I can. But I also wanted my fiancé to do a bottle once or twice a day so that he had that bonding experience too, and so it wasn’t all down to me. But my Health Visitor came on Tuesday and when I asked her about it she said he shouldn’t bottle feed the baby until 3-4 weeks if I am planning on breastfeeding, because it can confuse the baby at first, swapping between the two and latching onto the breast properly. I hadn’t thought about this. And now I feel like I’ll purely be breastfeeding for the first 4 weeks on my own and that feels quite full on. I have bought baby bottles. I bought a set of MAM ones from Argos that “self-sterilise” in the microwave and have great reviews. So then it didn’t cost as much because I don’t need to buy a steriliser. X
So I breastfed pretty much exclusively with my first and plan to do what you are thinking of this time round with my second. I want my husband to be able to help and don’t want to be solely responsible for feeding. So I’ve brought 2 different brands of bottles (small packs, containing 2 in each) and a microwave steriliser (cost about £20). My plan is to feed only from me for the first 4/6 weeks or until I feel like she’s got the hang of breastfeeding properly. During these weeks I plan to pump to start building my freezer supply. Then I’m going to slowly introduce some bottle feeds and see which bottles she takes well to, once I’ve established that I can buy more of that brand! Hope that helps, but if it makes you feel any better there’s no right or wrong. You’ll quickly get the idea of what works and doesn’t work for you and your baby 😊 x
I’ve got bottles and sterilisers. I think “wait til 4 weeks to bottle feed” is a load of rubbish, not everyone breastfeeds, so the baby has to eat somehow. Just don’t think about it too much, whatever happens is out of your control, and will just happen when baby is here. I will be combi feeding from the beginning x
I am planning on breastfeeding but also will attempt to build a stash of milk in freeze and bottle feed 😁 There is a lot of bottles that their teeth is supposed to mimic the breast too, apparently
With my first it took my daughter 6 weeks to latch on. I was expressing and bottle feeding her, this time round I have my partner so I will be again doing both. I suggest get the steamer and bottle as my friends milk didn't come at all. I also sent suggest a bresast pump. Tommee tippee offer a bresst feeding g kit for £203 you get bottles Sterlliser, bresst pump and more highly recommended
I plan to breastfeed and want to pump after around 4-6 weeks once I’ve built up a supply (hopefully!) so my partner can help. I have bought 2 MAM bottles and 2 Minbie bottles - the Minbie ones are meant to be the best for breastfed babies as they are closest shape to a nipple once baby has latched. I’ll then buy more of whichever bottle baby takes to best. I have a UV steriliser as I’ll be wanting to sterilise other things like toys / dummies / teethers too. However the Milton cold water steriliser is super useful as it takes 15 minutes and doesn’t require being plugged in! So will probably get one of these too for ease of use.