Breast feeding vs. Bottle/Formula Feeding

[donna-c-86]

i will definately be bottle feeding, i think its easier, less painful and i personally wouldnt wanna get me baps out in front of mil lol. also i want oh to help out and be as much involved as i am and i know my sisters will want to feed bubs whenever they're about too!

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

im having a csec and so the first few weeks i am gonna let my oh do a lot of the work while i get better and hes on paternity, also i know many ppl who have had problems with pain and i would sterilise and make up plenty of bottles to last the night

 

[aob1013]

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

Totally agree, everyone does stuff differently. And if people are secure and confident in their decisions they don't need to feel inferior or get offended by it.

 

[mumoffive]

Do they recommend it..not on the FSID website:

The safest place for your baby to sleep is in a cot in your room for the first six months
• Do not share a bed with your baby if you or your partner:

are very tired.

er...you have just had a baby, so it is likely you are 'very' tired!

Just a thought. x

 

[aob1013]

i will definately be bottle feeding, i think its easier, less painful and i personally wouldnt wanna get me baps out in front of mil lol. also i want oh to help out and be as much involved as i am and i know my sisters will want to feed bubs whenever they're about too!

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

im having a csec and so the first few weeks i am gonna let my oh do a lot of the work while i get better and hes on paternity, also i know many ppl who have had problems with pain and i would sterilise and make up plenty of bottles to last the night

I had an emergency section and a premature baby. You just have to get up and deal with it really. I didn't expect my OH to do everything, you have to work together as parents. You should recover in no time, as long as you keep up with your medication.

The current advise is to make bottles up as you go along to make sure everything is sterile, so you can't really make them up beforehand and leave them until you need them. Formula isn't sterile so it's very important to make sure everything is sterilised and boiled and made up correctly.

 

[Dragonfly]

i will definately be bottle feeding, i think its easier, less painful and i personally wouldnt wanna get me baps out in front of mil lol. also i want oh to help out and be as much involved as i am and i know my sisters will want to feed bubs whenever they're about too!

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

im having a csec and so the first few weeks i am gonna let my oh do a lot of the work while i get better and hes on paternity, also i know many ppl who have had problems with pain and i would sterilise and make up plenty of bottles to last the night

having a c section dosnt stop you breastfeeding though, was easier for me as i didnt have to get up.

 

[Ozzieshunni]

If I remember reading.....co-sleeping isn't having the baby in the same bed with you, it's on the side in a lower cot? Maybe that needs some clarification

 

[Lianne1986]

i think as long as ur comfortable with what u choose to do, then its no big deal!

 

[mumoffive]

I have had 5 children and have never had them as newborns sleep next to me. I am not a heavy sleeper but would be terrified i rolled on to them or my dh did since he sleeps next to me.

 

[Cloberella]

Do they recommend it..not on the FSID website:

The safest place for your baby to sleep is in a cot in your room for the first six months
• Do not share a bed with your baby if you or your partner:

are very tired.

er...you have just had a baby, so it is likely you are 'very' tired!

Just a thought. x

How has this gone from breast v bottle to the evils of co-sleeping?

 

[Dragonfly]

If I remember reading.....co-sleeping isn't having the baby in the same bed with you, it's on the side in a lower cot? Maybe that needs some clarification

no its in the same bed. But you can have beside you in like a cot i have to do that on next one as i havent enough room. same level though,.

 

[donna-c-86]

well i must just be a terrible mum then, i have one child who is quite healthy even though i did bf him! this thread was going so nicely aswell!......

 

[aob1013]

Do they recommend it..not on the FSID website:

The safest place for your baby to sleep is in a cot in your room for the first six months
• Do not share a bed with your baby if you or your partner:

are very tired.

er...you have just had a baby, so it is likely you are 'very' tired!

Just a thought. x

Funny how they recommend stuff differently everywhere. It works for us, it's recommended by health professionals. Oh and not to mention i was giving a co-sleeping booklet at my antental class telling us how to do it etc.

If you follow the guidelines and do it responsibly, there are no problems. Before there were cots and prams, babies and children slept with their parents. It's normal. We are one of the only few countries where children don't sleep with their parents.

 

[Lianne1986]

i must say i have neva heard any proffesionals say its ok to have baby in bed with u.

i have neva been told its ok to this, i have always been told NOT to do it

 

[mumoffive]

or worse still, the pillow caused an issue.

From the FSID website:

There is also a risk that you might roll over in your sleep and suffocate your baby, or that your baby could get caught between the wall and the bed, or could roll out of an adult bed and be injured.

 

[My_First]

i think as long as ur comfortable with what u choose to do, then its no big deal!

And I think thats exactly the point...I will try, if I get too tired/too much hard work etc. I will swap to FF. And I will definately be formula feeding by max 4 months...

 

[aob1013]

well i must just be a terrible mum then, i have one child who is quite healthy even though i did bf him! this thread was going so nicely aswell!......

This thread asked for advantages and disadvantages. If you are happy and confident with your decision, you shouldn't feel like a bad Mum.

I was formula fed and i am perfectly healthy and okay

 

[Bmonki]

erm aob and dragonfly... may i just point out one thing... you say that anybody who praises breastfeeding is getting negative undertones in replies... well i for one said i will be breastfeeding given half the chance and the thread was on a nice even keel, everyone was happy etc. nobody was giving off bad vibes at all so im not entirely sure where you picked up on that? we were all saying its personal choice, which it is.

and tbh i think aob your comment that there are NO negatives to breastfeeding is maybe a little of a generalisation - im glad that you found no negatives to your experience with it but unfortunately for whatever reason for some people there are negatives (such as mastitis for one example - my sil has had this everytime she has breastfed - and she's on her 4th bubba now).

lets just try and keep this as nice a discussion as possible please! i for one was glad that this thread wasnt going down the same route as all the other ones about bf vs ff with people taking things personally and getting upset. we all have our own opinions and yes the OP was asking for advice... but she was asking for our personal adv/disadv not just opinions on what you SHOULD do according to other people.

its all about what makes you as a mummy function better, if you enjoy bf'ing and find it works for you then fab, but i dont personally see a problem with ff'ing if bf'ing isnt your thing.

oh and btw for all those mummies who will be ff'ing we sterilised bottles during the day filled them with water, took the box of formula upstairs and DD had room temp bottles during the night. She has never had a problem with this and the health visitors and midwives were fine with it. alternatively if baby prefers warm milk you could take a kettle up and plug it in next to the bed and take cold half full bottles from the fridge up with you and top them up in the bedroom from the kettle all without having to move from your bed

 

[Lianne1986]

well i must just be a terrible mum then, i have one child who is quite healthy even though i did bf him! this thread was going so nicely aswell!......

ur not a bad mum

 

[Dragonfly]

Do they recommend it..not on the FSID website:

The safest place for your baby to sleep is in a cot in your room for the first six months
• Do not share a bed with your baby if you or your partner:

are very tired.

er...you have just had a baby, so it is likely you are 'very' tired!

Just a thought. x

How has this gone from breast v bottle to the evils of co-sleeping?

I have no idea but seems to have gone from bottle being great to breastfeeding not being so great and co sleeping being bad.

 

[donna-c-86]

oh and believe me i know we have to work together but my oh wants to take care of me so guess what im gonna let him, hes only off for 2 weeks so im sure i'll do my fair share!