Exclusively breastfeeding to formula

You may get lucky and they accept formula without a transition. The advise ive seen is to mix it initially with a higher percentage of breast to formila and over a few days increase the percentage as formula does taste different. I would start with one feed initially to help prevent you getting mastitis and slowly drop your feeds week on week. Id give yourself at least a 3 days break before you drop another feed.

And yeah they should go a solid 3 hours before giving feeding cues on average may be a bit sooner during the transition but it does sit in their stomach longer so they will go longer

Good luck :)

I’m combi feeding at the moment, we use ready to feed bottles but wanted to switch to powder formula in between breast feeds and my midwife suggested introducing one powder feed a day on a morning when his digestive system is more active to ween him onto it as powder formula is thicker with more air in than breast or RTF so I can cause excess wind and digestive upset then over time introduce more bottle feeds

They may not necessarily be more “full” but you’ll be able to monitor volumes with the bottle as an opposed to breast. This then could mean they have more per feed and go for longer between, reducing the overall number of feeds compared to breast.

There’s two things you need to consider here - introducing the formula and then reducing your milk supply as you don’t want to be engorged and run the risk of blocked ducts and/or mastitis.

From a bottle perspective for a 6 week old volumes are going to be around 120ml. You don’t have to transition, you can literally just give a full formula bottle and see how they get on, they could drink it no bother and then saves the faff. Maybe get in touch with your local feeding team and see what advice they have for reducing your supply