Breast and bottle

[cupcake]

as my little one eats every 1.5 to 2 hours and will only sleep in the arms, i am thinking of pumping out one bottle a day so i can take a nap.
i am so worried he will start to like the bottle more and not want to nurse anymore, i love nursing him, and he loves nursing but i am still afraid.
i have the tommee tippee bottles that are supposed to be used when you breastfeed.

who has experience with this? at this early stage?
and / or with these bottles.
please advise...

thanks
cupcake

 

[cupcake]

no one?

 

[Tezzy]

i found that ffion actually prefers the MAM bottles when she has one because they have a better 'boob' texture, tommee tippee are more plasticy

 

[mommytashaX2]

I have expressed milk on three occasions and Jaedan is 3 weeks old now.. I noticed that once he finished the bottle, he still wanted to be breastfed.. May have been for comfort reasons or because it wasn't enough. I have stopped expressing milk though and he hasn't had a problem. I think you should be fine if you are only going to give one bottle a day. As long as you keep on breastfeeding for the rest of his feedings, I don't think there should be an issue especially if you are giving your breast milk and not formula.

I use the Playtex bottles with the disposable liners.. The liners of these bottles collapse and your baby takes in less air compared to a regular bottle. Plus, the flow with these nipples are similar to the flow of the breast which makes transition between bottle and breast seem the same (so you don't have to worry about confusion or your baby wanting one more than the other... unless your baby naturally likes the comfort of being breastfed).

This link will show you what these bottles look like, if you haven't already seen them, and it will give you some information about them as well.. Good luck!!

https://images.google.ca/imgres?img...ottles+with+disposable+liners&um=1&hl=en&sa=N

 

[Linzi]

We were advised to wait until 5 wks to give a bottle because then theres less chance of nipple confusion.

xxx

 

[Ragirl]

I would probably wait a few weeks yet to introduce a bottle. What about taking a nap with him- he can nurse while you are lying down and you can both fall asleep?

 

[tinytoes]

i feed Ted direct on the breast, sometimes using a nipple shield sometimes not, and several times a day I feed him using a bottle and pumped milk. I've done this since he was about 5 days old as he wasnt getting enough through the breast alone.
He doesnt mind having all 3 types of teet. And in fact I use 2 sorts of bottles (Avent and medela) and he doesnt mind me mixing them either, so he actually comes across 4 types of teet in his day.. Maybe I'm lucky or he just loooooves his milk whatever form it comes in!!!

I wont use a dummy / pacifier as I dont want him to prefer that to a teet which gives him milk, but otherwise I mix all the other three up. As long as he's getting his milk and growing and I'm not in pain i'm happy, and he's happy. And our mid wives are happy. They told me to not change a thing as it obviously works for us.

 

[Tasha]

Hi,

I used the Tommy Tippee closer to nature bottles you are on about with Kaysie from about a week old (although you are not advised to until at least 2 weeks when feeding is properly established) and she never got confused, the shape of the teat meant her mouth was open wide like latching on to my boob, usually teats are narrow think this is where the confusion comes in.

 

[bigbelly2]

im doing both, breast and bottle using avent teats, tommy was 5 weeks early aswell and hes not confused, he takes a bout 5 attempts to latch on to the breast but once hes on im there forever, he then goes straight onto the bottle but like someone else said on here, he also likes to go onto the breast after a bottle but i also think its comfort!

h x

 

[KarenLV]

I only introduced a bottle after 6 weeks were completed.Hang in there! I use Playtex drop-ins and Avent anticolic bottles

 

[KarenLV]

I would probably wait a few weeks yet to introduce a bottle. What about taking a nap with him- he can nurse while you are lying down and you can both fall asleep?

I also do that.Works great!

 

[Margerle]

I only introduced a bottle after 6 weeks were completed.Hang in there! I use Playtex drop-ins and Avent anticolic bottles

That's what I'm using too, though we've only needed to 3-4 times. all after 4 weeks.

 

[sonny]

Hi we have tommee tippee bottles but tabs seems to take forever finishing a feed on them.
Since day one she was given the bottle from the special care unit and the small sma teats.however these teats are disposable ones and when sterilised so many times the hole gets very small so had to get rid of some of them,only a few left.
I looked all over town for some narrow teats like not the wide neck ones and the only anti colic ones i found were in morrisons, basic ones which were 2 for just over a pound i think and she gets on great with these,they are medium flow.
So now depening she has tommee tippee,breast,sma teats or the morrisons ones and never gets this nipple confusion business.
hope this helps

 

[sam's mum]

My HV advised me to try giving Sam a bottle between 4 and 6 weeks (by 4 weeks breastfeeding has been established and they won't forget what they're doing, but after 6 weeks they are less likely to want to feed from anything other than the breast - although some babies have no problem at any time)

If it's just for the occasional bottle I wouldn't worry about him preferring the bottle though - most breastfed babies will always prefer being fed from the breast, and love the fact that they can suck for comfort once they've finished feeding.

We use the Avent bottles and haven't had any problems with them at all (with the newborn teats as he has to suck harder to get the milk out and seems to prefer them) x

 

[LaDY]

Hey hun...im also breast feeding however using the bottle once a day...same bottles as you...i also had thesame concen however my baby is taking nicely to it...he still latches on fine...let us know how you get on...i just wouldnt give him the bottle too much thats all!x

 

[smartie]

I introduced the TommeTippee CTN bottles to Hannah when she was 4 weeks as my nipples were just soooo sore that I would most likely have given up bf otherwise! I gave her expressed milk for 2 weeks without any time on the breast and when I did put her back on she had no problem at all, no confusion. Even now she can go days on EBM and then take back to the breast like she was never away from it!

 

[cupcake]

thanx everyone ure the best!!