Combi feeding

How are you all getting on with feeding your little ones? My plan was to breastfeed and express feed but due to baby getting jaundice we had to add a little bit of formula feeds to his day and night. It is working for us as a top up but how do you find exclusively doing it with breast milk? I want to try but now everything feels a bit mixed up. I suppose as long as baby is happy and it works I shouldn’t stress.

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I was triple feeding my baby for a little while because she had jaundice when she was born. It was definitely stressful to cut out the formula, but we just slowly stopped giving it to her by decreasing the volume and it worked for us. She’s 18 months and I’m still breastfeeding her. I hope things workout for you!

I did triple feeding while mine had jaundice and needed to get back to birth weight , my life was it exhausting, I’m not mostly breastfeeding and pumping but pumping when I want to and not every 3 hours, hubby can still give a bottle if I’m tired or struggling on certain days and then I just pump extra and if she’s really fussy we’ll still give her formula. I guess I’m still triple feeding but relaxed triple feeding

She’s way past her birth weight now

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