Any EBF mums introduced a bottle of formula before bed?

Debating doing this so I can have other people put her to bed (dad & Nan) anyone else do this?

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I give my LG a formula bottle before bed and she has expressed bottle in the day or the boob, my milk supply dipped when i had mastitis so i decided to keep her on 1 bottle as she got used to it after a few weeks she took to it perfectly well i did have to put her on comfort milk as she got really constipated but shes doing well on it now and i use the hipp comfort milk x

think I’m going to give it a go! X

We do this but it doesn’t seem to make any difference to how much he sleeps!

I’ve tried this the past week, has made 0 difference to his sleep!

ah would have been a bonus if it did! Are you guys pumping when baby has it ? X

I wrote a whole message then realised what you were actually asking 😂 no I don’t pump when we give him the bottle at night, it does feel a little engorged by the time he does have a breastfeed in the night but is manageable. I know people will say you should pump to maintain your supply but I figure it’s only one feed so if there are some instances where you can’t give the bottle, your body should be able to compensate. Sometimes we give him expressed breast milk instead so I do pump a different time in the day (usually earlier in the day when my supply is more) but this isn’t every day.

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