Post by ElizabethBennet on Aug 4, 2015 12:21:44 GMT -5
O is 3 months old today (it's already going too fast) and I've been throwing around the idea of combo feeding. Currently she's ebf, but I've been thinking of having formula on hand for when im not around. I'm planning working out about an hour each day so my parents would watch her for a couple hours in the mornings. I would feed her before I left but want to have the option of formula in case they need it or I want to do something else that would require me being away from her.
Will this totally screw up our breastfeeding relationship?
I didn't make much milk, like 1-2 oz per feeding at the max so I would breastfeed for 15 minutes on each side and then he would get a bottle with formula. It was fine, he didn't have any trouble switching. I dried up around 3 months and then he was on formula
Post by ElizabethBennet on Aug 4, 2015 12:27:17 GMT -5
She has taken a few bottles of pumped milk, no formula yet. And honesty I could pump a bit but I hate pumping and I need a break. Or at least the option of one.
I finally gave kid formula at 10 months and was having weird guilt too although pumping was killing me slowly. But I just bought my first container of formula for new daycare next week and I'm feeling good about it.
Jack went back and forth between bm and formula and I never had an issue.
I tried giving Nathan formula before I knew I was going to be gone for a few hours, but he refused it. I may try again with half and half in the event I don't have enough frozen milk.
David won't take formula from me, but he will take pumped milk from me. Little chump
She has taken a few bottles of pumped milk, no formula yet. And honesty I could pump a bit but I hate pumping and I need a break. Or at least the option of one.
I'm having weird guilt about it though.
I have this weird guilt too. I can't kick it, so I will keep pumping. Lovely.
I feel ya. Guilt kept me pumping for 14 months. :/ eta: I couldn't make enough milk and started supplementing when they were 4 months. I was a mess leading up to it but it really wasn't a big deal.
I started combo feeding Day 4 for my baby. Luckily, he will take any nipple (tried several bottles), any formula (tried several as well), breast milk in a bottle and breastfeeding.
Insert no regrets chicken here. He's actually about 60% FF and 40% BF and it works for us.
She has taken a few bottles of pumped milk, no formula yet. And honesty I could pump a bit but I hate pumping and I need a break. Or at least the option of one.
I'm having weird guilt about it though.
I started supplementing with formula around 7 weeks when my ob told me to. He was gaining an oz a day, but I had the baby attached to me literally all day and when we started supplementing, he was taking 6 oz in a feeding. My body was not keeping up with his needs. It won't hurt to cut back pumping, but your supply might drop off too.
If YOU would feel better taking a break from it, take the break. I was thrilled to stop pumping all together when he was about 4 months. With O, I was producing next to nothing and I felt like the biggest failure though, so I totally get the guilt.
She has taken a few bottles of pumped milk, no formula yet. And honesty I could pump a bit but I hate pumping and I need a break. Or at least the option of one.
I'm having weird guilt about it though.
I started supplementing with formula around 7 weeks when my ob told me to. He was gaining an oz a day, but I had the baby attached to me literally all day and when we started supplementing, he was taking 6 oz in a feeding. My body was not keeping up with his needs. It won't hurt to cut back pumping, but your supply might drop off too.Â
If YOU would feel better taking a break from it, take the break. I was thrilled to stop pumping all together when he was about 4 months. With O, I was producing next to nothing and I felt like the biggest failure though, so I totally get the guilt.Â
Sarcasm, dude. Lucy was 100% Enfamil from day 10 of her life
She has taken a few bottles of pumped milk, no formula yet. And honesty I could pump a bit but I hate pumping and I need a break. Or at least the option of one.
I'm having weird guilt about it though.
The guilt is intense, but for me at least, the pre-guilt was a billion times more than post-guilt. Once you do it, and you see with your own eyes that your kid is FINE, and you feel a little more like yourself.. oh it is so nice. With every step-down in the process of EBF to EFF, I felt nothing but RELIEF. I wish that it wasn't such a struggle and that I could've EBF'd without trouble at every turn, but I also wish I was taller with narrower feet -- I'm not going to beat myself up about any of it.
I started supplementing with formula around 7 weeks when my ob told me to. He was gaining an oz a day, but I had the baby attached to me literally all day and when we started supplementing, he was taking 6 oz in a feeding. My body was not keeping up with his needs. It won't hurt to cut back pumping, but your supply might drop off too.
If YOU would feel better taking a break from it, take the break. I was thrilled to stop pumping all together when he was about 4 months. With O, I was producing next to nothing and I felt like the biggest failure though, so I totally get the guilt.
Sarcasm, dude. Lucy was 100% Enfamil from day 10 of her life
Not being to ebf O still hits very close to home for me. I was totally going to be one of those crunchy ebf until two types until my body was an asshole and I realized chicken nuggets were the answer to all toddler problems.
Post by ElizabethBennet on Aug 4, 2015 13:07:55 GMT -5
I don't know why I'm havingn this guilt, it would be one bottle a couple of times a week, if that. Mom guilt is so stupid and logically I know I have nothing to feel guilty about.
Thanks for the replies. I might pick up a can of formula today and go from there. Any suggestions on what type? How much should I give her?
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Aug 4, 2015 13:18:40 GMT -5
David likes Enfamil but not the supplementing kind. He can suck down 4oz at a time and we use the Avent natural glass bottles bc they're more booblike than the Medella bottles that came with the pump
I get the guilt, I had it too. With my first, I had to supplement right away b/c we ended up in the hospital because she was dehydrated b/c my milk took FOREVER to come in. We did both FF and BF for a month or so. Then back to BFing. Then back to both.
With #2, we purposely gave him a bottle of formula the first day home. ANd from that day on, he got 1 bottle a day of formula, the rest was BFing. I felt guilty for that, but I also knew I needed to not have it all on me to do it all... for my own sanity.