Breast feeding vs. Bottle/Formula Feeding
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Definately not easier!
With fomula feeding, you have to sterilse and make up bottles as and when you need them. What a pain at 3am eh!
Least with booby with can whip it out and feed baby in bed ohh it's just so easy, no faffing with sterlising and making up bottles, it's perfect temperature, always available, so easy! I couldn't be bothered to formula feed, too much work
You can keep bottles in the sterliser to keep them sterilie.
You can also fill the bottles and put them in the fridge/on the side half filled with cooled boiled water.
You can top the bottles up, as you need them with boiling water from the kettle then add the milk.
Its really not that hard!
The new electric sterilisers take a matter of minutes but most people would have the bottles ready esp at night time. I have always done it this way with no problems.
As for going out, thats easy. You take a carton of ready milk. Failing that, take some powdered milk in a container with the number of scoops and use a fisher price flask to fill it up with boiling water. You can also heat the ready made carton up using the flask of boiling water. Its slightly more of a fuss than bf but really its NO big deal!
Course it's not, but not as easy as just whipping your boob out and having to do nothing
I type and breastfeed
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Definately not easier!
With fomula feeding, you have to sterilse and make up bottles as and when you need them. What a pain at 3am eh!
Least with booby with can whip it out and feed baby in bed ohh it's just so easy, no faffing with sterlising and making up bottles, it's perfect temperature, always available, so easy! I couldn't be bothered to formula feed, too much work
You can keep bottles in the sterliser to keep them sterilie.
You can also fill the bottles and put them in the fridge/on the side half filled with cooled boiled water.
You can top the bottles up, as you need them with boiling water from the kettle then add the milk.
Its really not that hard!
The new electric sterilisers take a matter of minutes but most people would have the bottles ready esp at night time. I have always done it this way with no problems.
As for going out, thats easy. You take a carton of ready milk. Failing that, take some powdered milk in a container with the number of scoops and use a fisher price flask to fill it up with boiling water. You can also heat the ready made carton up using the flask of boiling water. Its slightly more of a fuss than bf but really its NO big deal!
Course it's not, but not as easy as just whipping your boob out and having to do nothing
I type and breastfeed
I'm doing it now
Oh and also, once you learn the art of feeding on your side, you can pretty much go to sleep and feed your baby, then they can help themselves. I would HATE to have to get out of my warm bed to make a bottle up, horrible! Especially in winter!
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i thought tht, surely isnt tht dangerous?
but breastfeeding mums actually do get more sleep and rest. And dad has other things he can do and if you really want you can express a bottle and dad can feed that. And its called co sleeping. It makes breastfeeding at night easier.
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Risk? It's love.ly falling asleep with your baby. AND so easy for breastfeeding. Leni helps himself when he wants, it's great
Leni and I co-sleep and have done from day 1. It's fab. Seems to alien to me to put him alone in his cot.
Co-sleeping is fab for establishing a milk supply. My midwife and my antenatal classess really encouraged it, as does my health visitor.
Co-sleeping when done safely and responsibly is wonderful. In countries such as Japan, where co-sleeping is normal the SIDS rate is so low they don't even know what it is.
It works for us, it's great
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Co sleeping when done safely and responsibly and following all the guidelines and advise from professionals is normal, healthy, beneficial for Mum and Baby, and help to establish breastfeeding
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Yeah this is true, and now there seems to be nasty undertones to everyones posts- can we just go back to the original post? Lets play nice
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I agree, that's when you can express and give Daddy a bottle.
However, i like to attend to my baby's needs myself especially as my OH works. Not really fair to ask him to get up in the middle of the night when it's easier for me to feed Leni
whos they? and it is called COT for a reason not co sleeping death.NHS have leaflets they give to parents. It is advised against of you smoke, drink or take heavy meds.
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Whats that got to do with love? I just don't like getting out of my warm bed
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Anway, i dont have any problem with people who want to breastfeed. I dont have any issue with people who want to formula feed. It is totally up to the individual. Personally i like formula feeding but have breast fed also. No need for any bad feeling between anyone. x
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Babies die in cots too.
Really, who's that? All health professionals i know advise co-sleeping. Usually only if you are breastfeeding of course.
My son was 6 weeks premature, and the neonatal nurses in SCBU advised me to co-sleep. I was shown how to do it safely and correctly.
Love it
