Anyone mix feeding? Formula and breastmilk?

What are your reasons for whatever you have decided?

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We are currently mix feeding as we are weaning our LB onto formula and wanted to do it gradually give his body time to adjust.

Why weaning him onto formula? If u dont mind me asking. I'm just curious

I mix feed. I do it simply because sometimes he doesnt want breast milk.

My son was mix fed his first months because I wasn’t able to produce enough breast milk. We switched completely to formula after 3 months. Not producing was adding stress and anxiety.

I did! My twins were in the NICU and needed formula fortifiers in their breast milk from day one. It helps with brain and lung development in premiees. I was never able to breastfeed because of a terrible NICU experience (long story, happy to share if you want), so I was pumping. I went back to work immediately after the NICU stay and trying to work that out with twins and a working husband and a million other life things was terrible. I had to stop pumping to legitimately save myself. I pumped until 6 weeks and transitioned to formula over that time. Mixed milk and formula until they were totally on formula.

i plan to do both. breastfeed & then formula & breastfeeding when i go back to work

I breastfed solely for 2 months then I introduced a formula feed at night to give me a break, once I was ready to give up at 7 months we reduced the amount of boob to bottle ratio x

I combi fed my twins. I didn’t want to express, personal choice, and it meant my partner, or anyone else, could feed one whilst I fed the other. I would alternate so one would be bf and the other formula then next feed switch. I did this for 3 months and then switched to solely formula as I found it easier when I was on my own.

I exclusively pumped for 13 months. The first 6 months we supplemented with formula because I wasn't producing enough.

in our community

mum guilt

am i the only one that doesn’t suffer from mum guilt when going out or staying away from baby for long periods of time?

i dont even feel it about starting work again at the end of next month

my boy is 10 months old.

Feeling like a failure

Baby is 9 months old and I feel like I’m doing everything wrong. He doesn’t sleep well, never has, but I feel like it’s worse at the minute. He has never ever slept through, most he’s done is 6 hour stretch twice. Also, he is not interested in food at all despite trying and offering for the last 3 months. All babies his age seem to be eating well, yet to come across one who doesn’t.

He wakes up 5-10 times a night, normally it’s 2-4, most of the time he’ll only settle on the bottle despite me and my husband trying everything for hours. Sometimes we can rock him back to sleep but then up an hour later. At some point in night bottle won’t even settle him, he’ll only go back to sleep when in our bed. When he does wake up he’s rolling, kicking, slapping etc. he has to sleep with mittens on or he’ll pinch my eyes or scrape my gums etc.

Tried everything with his sleep but this isn’t getting better - even tried consultant but they couldn’t help.

We’ve offered him every type of food but he just throws it on the floor. When we try to offer it to him he purses lips and turns head away. Only thing he’ll eat is melty sticks. Seeing others on 3x bottles a day, my LO is on 6-7x bottles. Weve tried feed him before milk due so he’s not reliant on the bottle but it never works. Tried feeding after a feed but also doesn’t work. Tried feeding in the middle but not interested. Literally tried everything with food, not interested.

Feeling like a real failure of a mum. People saying ‘food is fun before 1’, but I’ll get to 1 and it’s going to become a real problem, which I don’t want. I’m exhausted and so upset.

Sleeping

This is my first baby and I have no idea if this is normal or not but I've been sleeping basically all throughout the night and getting nearly 10 hours of sleep to still wake up absolutely shattered and have an hour to two hour nap at like 2 pm and then still go to bed at like 11 and sleep through the night and don't get me wrong I love the fact I'm getting in a comfortable enough position to sleep but it just seems out of the ordinary and just want to know if other people have experienced it

Thermo flask recommendations

Hey

I’m wanting some recommendations for a flask that retains its heat well for a long period of time to help with any bottle feeds I may need to do. This isn’t so much to warm up the milk but I like to do the hot shot method with my rapid cool. What does everyone use? X

Naps great one day sh"t the next

Why is my baby great at self settling one day and naps really well then the next day (I've changed nothing) will moan and then cry like she doesn't know how to put herself to sleep?! It's so frustrating. I just want one good week. I do the same wake window times, wait for tired signs but then she just kicks off. Is anyone else's baby annoying? 7 months this week. Even the first.nap is just difficult. She's rubbing her eyes in the cot moaning and I just know I'll have to go in there and rock her and have her fall asleep on me. When I really don't want to. Postpartum rage anyone?

Sleep advice please

Anyone else’s baby like this? Any advice?
9 month old. He’s been like this for months 🥲
Thanks