How far soon before going back do you recommend starting to give LO a bottle for every feeding ? I figure I need to start earlier than right before to establish a routine ??
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We started giving one bottle a day or every other day about 10 days before I went back to work. Our son was relatively easy about transitioning once we found the right bottle for him.
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My DS first had a bottle in his first week of life! We just tried to make sure that he had a bottle every couple of days to make sure he still took it, but he wasn't too picky with it. I never had him have a whole day of bottles before I went back to work because I knew that he took a bottle fine already and I wouldn't have wanted to pump at home and give a bottle too. If LO is finicky with bottles you could try one bottle a day and see if LO takes that okay.
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We gave LO his first bottle at 4 weeks. He then had a bottle every other day until I went back to work.
He is 8mo now and has 3-4 four ounce bottles while I am at work (7:30-5:00). On the weekends he is only breastfed. If we have a lng weekend or vacation he has a bottle every other/every third day. If I don't keep the bottle as part of the routine he will refuse it!
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Ok great ! we also started bottles early and e takes one every evening just fine so we should be good to go??? And when I'm at work I would just pump when he would normally nurse ?
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@coacheswife123: I would definitely think one every evening is good! When I started back at work, because of my job, I was only able to pump twice even though DS ate 3 times. Ideally, I would have pumped whenever he would usually nurse. The past few months DS's schedule changed and I was able to pump at the two times he usually ate and then he was ready to nurse when I got home, which was perfect for us! I hope the transition is smooth for you!
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@coacheswife123: we started a bottle pretty early (one a night), I pump 3x a day (9AM, 12PM, 3PM) and DS eats around those times but not exactly. We don't do bottles on the weekends when I'm home and he nurses more frequent than that.
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