Exclusively EBF?

[Threelittleducks]

Has anyone here, for any reason, CHOSEN to exclusively express from birth?

Did the hospital accommodate this? Did they allow storage of excess breast milk? Could you then get it heated up for a feed? What happened about sterilisation of bottles? Did you use your own pump/hospital's?
Own bottles?

Very curious to know as to what would happen if a woman chose to express exclusively from birth as opposed to breastfeed? I know that breastfeeding is obviously the most pushed solution, with ff being a quietly not-very-promoted alternative, but was wondering what would happen if you stated from the outset that you WANTED to express rather than breastfeed.

I find pumping v. difficult so may be biased, but what I would say is to TRY to breastfeed (as in, direct from source). That way, if it is much easier than your first, you get to skip the pumping this time round. If you find yourself in the same position as you were last time you can always just pump. Seems the logical best of both worlds to me.

FWIW, mucho respect to any pumping mum - couldn't do it for all the tea in china. 40 mins at the pump gives me sores nips and about 40ml milk which is bugger all for a hungry 9mo old!