I am nursing, but I also want to give one bottle a day to avoid a bottle strike. I am not sure when I want to give her the bottle, though. I am thinking of doing half boob/ half bottle at bedtime. When do you bottle feed?
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DH's gives LO a nighttime bottle before bed.
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Usually when we are out running errands. I wanted to reinforce the habit too since there was no way I could nurse on the days I work.
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We bottle fed her more the first month because nursing hurt so bad for me. After that I mostly nursed when DH wasn't around and he would give her bottles when he got home...maybe 1-3 bottles!
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I only nurse when it's just me. If I could find time to pump and give her a bottle I would like to do it before bed to make sure she's getting an ample amount to sleep longer.
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When we were doing both, my husband would give him a bottle before bed and I would pump at that time.
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If I'm out for an extended period of time during the day I'll give a bottle then. Otherwise hubs does a bottle at bed time. We try to be sure she has one a day. So far she has had no issues with the bottle.
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I mostly bottle feed during the day. He usually wants more milk before he passes out so I'll nurse him a bit, burp him and put him down drowsy.
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I breastfeed when I'm home. But starting at 6 weeks old, I had DH feed LO a bottle at least once every few days.
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DH would do the bedtime bottle when I was home on maternity leave. Now that DS is with the sitter, he gets bottles all day and I nurse as much as he wants at night so DH doesn't get to feed anymore; might need to re-evaluate that plan though.
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Nursing only over here!
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I only nurse, and this is why. My girl took a bottle great at first, and then I stopped, and she never did again. Bottle rejection is real!
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We did a bottle at bedtime from 2 weeks on, and I pumped while he took that bottle. Then we switched to bottles for all night feedings once he was down to 2 feedings a night, I think?
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We did one bottle at night (her night time bottle) because I was totally afraid of bottle rejection! She didn't have a problem with bottles when I went back to work, thank goodness!
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I do both
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@Andrea: how old is your LO?
At this point my LO is nearly 9 months so I nurse all day, but when she was younger I had to bottle feed during the day because otherwise she would refuse the bottle at daycare
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@Mrsbells: 2 weeks old. I've already given her bottles because I had to supplement with formula/pumped milk due to her jaundice for a week. I no longer have to supplement so I stopped bottles, but I want to start up again because I want to avoid a bottle strike.
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@Andrea: yes at that age I would keep up with atleast one bottle every few days. I stopped bottle feeding my baby around 3 weeks and when I reintroduced the bottle at 8 weeks she rejected it for a long time
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He gets one before bedtime because I need a break! He's always been a vocarious (spelling?) Eater and by 7-8pm I'm just done.
PS: occasionally he's still hungry after the bottle so then he gets nursed, but usually he's out like a light.
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I pretty much only nurse because I find pumping and washing bottles to be super annoying. He only gets maybe one bottle a week, but so far hasn't really had much trouble.
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