Combo Feeding

I’ve always given my baby a bottle of mixed breast milk + formula. 2 OZ formula & 2 OZ breast milk together. I have been told that it is okay. But now I am digging too deeep into google and I’m getting worried. It says to mix the formula first and then addd breast milk at the end and I remember for a good week I would add breast milk FIRST and then mix the formula. Will my baby be okay?!???

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I have been combo feeding since he was a newborn, he is now 2 months.

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I did the same exact thing you did, even down to how you mixed it. My baby is just fine. What I’ve been doing to help me remember, is I make multiple bottles. So If I make 3, I’ll make one bottle completely formula, pour all my breast milk into the other ones and then go and pour my formula into the other ones. That way the formula one is already ready

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I have been using the ready to feed formula and I leave it in the fridge so both pumped breastmilk and formula are at fridge temp. Just before heating for feeds, I mix the two. I am doing 25 percent formula so 1 oz and 3 oz breastmilk.

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