Genuine question for moms that feed baby with breast milk and formula
Hi, I’m a young FTM & I’ve recently heard of a lot of women that do either formula or mixed feeding. Since I exclusively breastfeed, I am just genuinely curious of what are the various reasons women choose this option?
I know some like low milk supply, going back to work & wanting your partner to help - but is there many other ones that maybe are less common/talked about?
Also curious, does the baby not mind having both the boob and bottle if you do mixed feeding?
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Mines to do with a lower milk supply, I don’t have as much as some so I find when my little one needs a top up she’ll either have any expressed milk from the fridge or formula if I don’t have enough. She doesn’t always have top ups, only when she’s hungry still. It also gives me the flexibility for husband to feed her, when I want a break. She seems fine though taking bottle and boob xx
I also have a low milk supply. My LO was born with a tongue tie so struggled to latch at the beginning until he was about 8 weeks when he got it sorted. So he was being fed from the bottle from the beginning I was just pumping milk but because of no knowledge about correct pumping and my pump wasn't as good as it could've been my milk supply dropped. I am topping him up every feed about 5oz. Sometimes he drinks it all and sometimes he leaves some. X
My eldest was combi fed - I had a traumatic labour and delivery and my milk didn’t come in until day 5, by which point we’d had to introduce formula. He initially refused the breast, and I resigned myself to him being formula fed. But then some weeks later decided actually he wanted to give it a go, but my supply essentially never caught up by that point. So he was combi fed. It was what it was 🤷🏼♀️
With my second, I tried to introduce a bottle when she was about 8 months, because I wanted to be able to spend a bit more time away from her, so I could have 1 on 1 time with my eldest. But she wasn’t having any of it. So that answers your second question, some babies absolutely do mind having both and just won’t 🤣
I exclusively breastfed, I cut the breastfeeding and switch to solid when she is 1.
It was quite exhausting but I just forced myself to keep breastfeeding, there were so many challenges like she refused my left breast for few days so I had to change the way I hold her and then she started feeding from left again. My milk supply was okay so I didn’t have an issue with that.
+Also my LO didn’t take the bottle at all, so I didn’t have a chance.
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