"Nursing" Your Bottle-Fed Baby

[Noelle610]

Loved this article and wanted to share with you lovely mamas:

https://theotherbabybook.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/3-tools-for-nursing-babies-through-bottles/

 

[socitycourty]

that was great. and I agree it is possible to "nurse" your baby even while FF. I always held hadley in the BF cradle, never propped her bottle, did skin to skin, etc.

Obviously we bonded even without BF as she never wants me to leave her sight LOL

 

[Noelle610]

Obviously we bonded even without BF as she never wants me to leave her sight LOL

I was just thinking that about mine too

 

[lozzy21]

I was gutted when she wanted to hold her bottle herself, One day when she must have been about 9 months old she grabbed her bottle from me and wiggled onto the floor and laid down there drinking it. I nearly cried.

 

[Noelle610]

I was gutted when she wanted to hold her bottle herself, One day when she must have been about 9 months old she grabbed her bottle from me and wiggled onto the floor and laid down there drinking it. I nearly cried.

Me too!!!

 

[socitycourty]

mine has just started holding hers but she also drinks out of straw cups. she won't always hold her bottle, sometimes she still lets me

 

[MindUtopia]

In addition to feeding times, I spend a couple hours a day 'comfort nursing' my daughter when she's fussy or extra tired. I put her in the cradle position like I used to breastfeed her and offer her a dummy. She's not really too keen on the dummy in general but when I do this, it mimics how she used to feed from me and it calms her better than anything else does. And it just feels so natural to me and brings back good memories of those early days. It's one of the best parts of our days together.

 

[socitycourty]

In addition to feeding times, I spend a couple hours a day 'comfort nursing' my daughter when she's fussy or extra tired. I put her in the cradle position like I used to breastfeed her and offer her a dummy. She's not really too keen on the dummy in general but when I do this, it mimics how she used to feed from me and it calms her better than anything else does. And it just feels so natural to me and brings back good memories of those early days. It's one of the best parts of our days together.

still do this with mine even though she's big and tall now

I feel nostalgic for newborn days

 

[aimee-lou]

Eddy has held his own bottle since he was 4.5 months but up until that point I would always 'nurse' him. He would be cradled to sleep too like that until about the same age. It's almost like he grew out of the newborn stage around that point. Since then he's been so independent but at the same time, he follows me around like a shadow with that 'What'ya doin'?' expression most of the time! lol

 

[wookie130]

You know, I never thought that because I was bottle-feeding that I wasn't "nursing." I do not associate the term "nursing" with breastfeeding whatsoever. That is because the definition of "nursing" is actually "to comfort" your baby...so, by that meaning, a father feeding a baby a bottle is actually nursing, or providing comfort as well. I've been reading the Dr. Sears baby book, and it talks about this a lot...EVERYONE "nurses."

 

[Noelle610]

You know, I never thought that because I was bottle-feeding that I wasn't "nursing." I do not associate the term "nursing" with breastfeeding whatsoever. That is because the definition of "nursing" is actually "to comfort" your baby...so, by that meaning, a father feeding a baby a bottle is actually nursing, or providing comfort as well. I've been reading the Dr. Sears baby book, and it talks about this a lot...EVERYONE "nurses."

I love that perspective. Thanks for sharing

 

[socitycourty]

i agree with that too. unless you give baby a bottle, strap it to them and put them in a dark corner, how are you not nursing? I think rocking, feeding, cuddling, bathing, singing, etc. is all part of "nursing"

 

[greenbeans12]

My son is much to wriggly for me to be able to nestle him closely and he prefers to hold his own bottle himself. It makes me sad.

 

[Noelle610]

My son is much to wriggly for me to be able to nestle him closely and he prefers to hold his own bottle himself. It makes me sad.

I think this happens with breastfed babies too! The world is too interesting to cuddle with mom

 

[wookie130]

My son is much to wriggly for me to be able to nestle him closely and he prefers to hold his own bottle himself. It makes me sad.

I think this happens with breastfed babies too! The world is too interesting to cuddle with mom

This is true as well!