https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-first-give-your-baby-a-bottle#post-99101 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:07:22 +0000 katdevargas 99101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>lo is only 13 days, so I don't have any long term experience, but we gave her formula from days 3-6, when my milk finally came in. it was really delayed to a rough labour. she's been ebf since then, even though I have tried to give her a bottle with some breast milk in it. she was not interested. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-first-give-your-baby-a-bottle#post-98730 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:50:42 +0000 cupcakemama 98730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: that's basically what I had heard. Keep the nipples as slow ones so baby has to work as hard with the bottle.</p> <p>We gave LO a bottle at 4 weeks. At 10 weeks we had a bottle refuser but was sorted by 12weeks. The bottles were breastmilk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-first-give-your-baby-a-bottle#post-98720 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:10:53 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 98720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gave mine a bottle when she was 5 days old. She is breastfed but I pump so that my husband can have some bonding tone with her, and so I can take a break. The lactation consultant said that a bottle should be introduced around the 3 week mark. She also said that it's not so much nipple confusion, but nipple preference, since the bottle is easier to get milk from. Just make sure to use a slow flow nipple and there shouldn't be a problem. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-first-give-your-baby-a-bottle#post-98715 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:02:08 +0000 autumnlove 98715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gave her a bottle when she was 4 days old. She is now mostly breastfed but takes 2-3 bottles of pumped milk every day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-first-give-your-baby-a-bottle#post-98688 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:08:04 +0000 chopsuey 98688@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gave my LO a bottle at the hospital. She was jaundiced and I needed to supplement with formula. I gave her a bottle + breastfed for the first 2 months of her life until she started rejecting the bottle at around 2.5 months. Since then I've exclusively breastfed. LO is turning 1 in 6 days! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-first-give-your-baby-a-bottle#post-98672 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:43:15 +0000 Maysprout 98672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gave my LO a bottle of pumped milk for the first time at 2 weeks when I had mastitis, well my husband gave it to her. She usually got one a day in the evening. I think some of it just depends on your LO's personality. Mine was always a food lover so she'd drink her milk cold or warm but always had a boob preference. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-first-give-your-baby-a-bottle#post-98665 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:34:47 +0000 Mrs. Pen 98665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son is 4 weeks old, I have no need to give him a bottle yet (I am breastfeeding), but I am curious to when you started your babies on bottles?</p> <p>I am a nanny so when I go back to work, he will be coming with me, so pumping/bottle feeding will be only for when I'm away from him which I don't see in the near future. But someone suggested to help with sleep to pump and have my husband bottle feed him.</p> <p>My only concern is that I've heard giving babies bottles too early can cause baby-induced-early-weaning which I really don't want to happen. Has anyone had this happen to them? </p>