Due to latching issues at the start with DS2, I decided very early on that I would express my milk for him and have done that since he was a week old. He's now 5 months and I am so exhausted and done with expressing, I'm now weaning off the pump with the aim of being stopped by 6 months.
I've managed to build up quite a stock of milk that is in my chest freezer so am now just wondering how is best to use it. I could keep him on purely breastmilk for about another month after I stop expressing with my freezer stash ... Or I could use half breastmilk and half formula and keep that on for two months ... Or I could switch him to formula but give him one breastmilk bottle a day and do that for much longer. It's in a deep freeze so lasts for 12 months so it going off isn't an issue.
I'm really struggling to decide what is best for him and best to do and I can't really find any research out there! Maybe it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things but expressing has been a slog so I want to feel I've done the right thing with the fruits of my labours!
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Purely breastmilk or mixed feeding for longer....what is best?
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Pepperwand · 18/10/2019 15:26
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