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If you mixed fed?

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NotSoThinLizzy · 14/06/2019 18:10

If you mixed fed weather it be formula or expressed when did you introduce a bottle? I tried with my DS when he was 6 weeks old and he refused every time since. Would like to mix feed this new baby in Oct.

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Mokepon · 14/06/2019 18:15

About 8 weeks I think.

LeekMunchingSheepShagger · 14/06/2019 18:19

We did it at 10 days with both dc. We didn't have any problems.

InDubiousBattle · 14/06/2019 18:28

11 or 12 days , teeny tiny amounts just to get dd to take it, building up to a couple of oz by 3/4 weeks. She had a bottle of f every day as the lastfeed of the day and it worked out really well for us.

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NotSoThinLizzy · 14/06/2019 18:52

Ahh thanks guys. I really dont want a bottle refuser this time round so keen to try early. Did you babies have dummies? Do you think that helped any?

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happytoday73 · 14/06/2019 18:59

With both mine... End of first week or so as no milk coming through as i wasn't well... Accepted as starving! 😭 1st time on doctors recommendation, 2nd time just did when realised going same route!

As my milk came back we did 1 bottle a day... Late at night by partner before he went to bed... I went to sleep early evening and bottle meant I could sleep longer.

happytoday73 · 14/06/2019 19:00

Obviously don't recommend starving but it was effective... Dummy didn't vary it (one had, one didn't)

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NotSoThinLizzy · 14/06/2019 19:04

Yeah the plan would be the one bottle before bed so OH can do it so I can get some sleep. Then I'll take over. So will still get all the night making milk hormones.

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NormHonal · 14/06/2019 19:09

Around a week old I think. DC1 was a complete bottle-refuser so was keen to avoid that. Introduced 1 bottle a day at about 1 week old and it worked a treat. I carried on bf until 14mo but was able to be away from DC2 for the odd day here and there, which did me a lot of good.

NormHonal · 14/06/2019 19:10

And yes, we also did the bottle before bedtime.

Littleelffriend · 14/06/2019 19:12

Day 2

Bobbiepin · 14/06/2019 19:15

A month, give or take. Dd refused to take it from me but occasionally did from dh. We changed to MAM bottles and that worked much better.

I would go to bed straight after the 9pm feed, dh would give her a bottle at midnight and then bring her to me for the next feed. Anything after that she was in the moses basket and I did the night feed. Worked this way until 5 months when I gradually introduced more bottles.

Flatwhite32 · 14/06/2019 19:16

3 days in (expressed milk!). DD never had issues switching between breast and bottle, and when she went to bottles full time at 7 months, there were no issues at all. It worked so well for us, and I'll hopefully be doing the same if we have another.

elliejjtiny · 14/06/2019 19:17

I mix fed ds3 for 2 years. Introduced a bottle on day 4 I think.

Caterina99 · 15/06/2019 01:48

About 3 days I think

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