Dreading anyone else feeding baby

[IrelandsOwn]

I've never seen another thread about this so I hope I'm not a complete weirdo. My daughter is 10 weeks old and exclusively breastfed. It was a nightmare for the first seven weeks but now we're doing great. I pump occasionally because I know at some point that I'm going to be leaving her for more than an hour or two. In fact, I look forward to it because mommy needs a break! But the thought of her feeding from a bottle makes me want to cry. Even if it's my own milk, fed by my husband. Has anyone else felt like this and gotten over it? I told him he could give her a bottle this weekend but I changed my mind almost immediately (not that he even remembers I'm sure)

 

[JenX]

Yes, I feel like this. I have left her with my husband just two times with bottles of expressed milk. Both times he has had a hard time feeding her and wants to practice more often, but I dread it. Despite knowing that millions of babies are fed this way, it still makes me sad to think of her struggling with a bottle. Probably silly, but yes I know just how you feel.

 

[LegoHouse]

By the time I left my son he was old enough to survive on juice and food for an hour or two lol. It would kill me someone giving him a bottle.

 

[NYGirl]

Yup, and its ridiculous because my first was ff, but even thinking about giving this little one a bottle makes my stomach churn

 

[dan-o]

By the time I left my son he was old enough to survive on juice and food for an hour or two lol. It would kill me someone giving him a bottle.

Same here!

 

[Tacey]

Neither of mine have ever taken a bottle. I hated the thought of it! I could tank them up with milk and get a couple of hours from about 4 months or so, and the time has just increased from there.

 

[Fortune Cooki]

DD took the bottle at 3 weeks so that daddy could feed her a couple of ounces. It's a Lansinoh bottle that has a very wide rounded nipple. For the vast majority of the time, I am giving her the breast, but it is nice to get in a few more hours of sleep and let DH take care of her.

 

[youngy]

Me too i wanted to cry the first time my husband gave him a bottle of my milk, he has offered to do a night feed so I can get some sleep but I can't do it, the thought of him waking up at night and taking a bottle upsets me so I'd rather be tired lol,
Never thought I would feel so strongly about it!

 

[tommyg]

If I was about DS was BF, occassionally did I leave him with OH and a few ounces of EBM.
One day we needed to visit the lawyer DS was about 5mths, he was left with MIL and a bottle of frozen EBM incase we weren't back in time. The silly mare took the bottle out of the freezer to let it defrost! why she didn't wait until she saw if she needed it or not is beyond me, so I got back and she'd wasted my emergany bottle so she sat all smug feeding DS it was the only time I watched anybody bottle feed him and I hated every second of it.

So in short you are not alone. And it was the one thing that kept be BFing until 14mths. I couldn't handle the thought of grannies saying "oh I'll give him his bottle"

 

[misspriss]

I hated it, but I had to go back to work as I am the main income for our family and we have to pay the mortgage....

It was so hard. Even if we were offering him a bottle, I would rather be the one to do it. Milk comes from Mommy! Now most of the milk when he is awake comes from Daddy or Grandma....*sigh*

 

[Button#]

I didn't leave him until he was on solids and able to go a reasonable time between feeds. I never had to so just didn't bother. I hated expressing anyway so I was very glad to give it up after one or two tries.