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will my baby take formula
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.One thing I did find though was because she was having expressed milk from a bottle (when I went back to work in the evenings) she got used to the bottle teat and started refusing the breast. And, as the more you feed, the more milk you produce to keep up with demand, my milk started drying up cause she didn't want the breast and I couldn't express enough. So she ended up on formula from about 5 months onwards and I had wanted to b/f for longer. She is fine, fit and healthy and no worse off for it but I do encourage you to keep up with the breastfeeding for as long as you can as there are so many benefits.
You can express and keep it in the fridge for up to 24 hours as well you know. I used to sit expressing a bottle or two whilst she was asleep and I sat watching TV (felt like a milking machine some days!!).
But if you do make the decision to switch full time to formula please don't feel like you are letting anyone down, you have to do what is best for you and your baby and stuff what anyone else thinks OK?
Express by hand it is more gentle than the pump. I could not express by pump at all.
Nice to have a plan but be flexible Obonio and you may find that baby prefers the laziness of the teat than the hard work of the nipple. Also to get your milk to come in you will need to breast feed exclusively for at least the first 2 weeks.
Obonio - life will be much easier if you get feeding well established, past the first 6 weeks, before you start experimenting with bottles. My first son totally rejected the breast having had his first taste of a bottle, I did not make the same mistake twice!
So second son was totally breast fed, night times were the easiest, I just pulled him into bed with me and popped him back in his crib when he'd finished, much better than letting him get really awake and hungry while waiting for the bottle to be ready (or feeding cold, much more likely to get colic).
lilkenny, if your circumstances force you to add some bottle feeds to his routine, you may find it easiest to feed him at night when he is only partly awake and less likely to notice the easy bottle has been replaced by the healthier but harder breast!