First bottle of EBM ....

[Ghosty]

My DD just had her first bottle ... of EBM I hasten to add ... and I feel strangely sad, like I have been dumped, because she took to it so easily.
We decided to give it a go ... to avoid missing that 'all important window' as DH puts it ...
But I felt awful ... I sat and pumped in the other room (and pumped 7oz in 10 minutes!) while she and DH bonded in the living room with tears running down my face!
I have told DH that we will only do EBM bottles 'now and again' to give me a break because I just don't want her to get used to the bottle like DS did!
Is it normal for me to feel so gutted that she liked it so much?????

Ghosty, babe, congratulations.

My feeling? Express if it's useful. It was for me, because I knew I'd be working again from five months. Took a long time to get her used to a bottle too but these days - dd2's now NINE months, woweee - she tootles off with two bottles of EBM (and huge amounts of food!) four days a week; the rest of the time she latches on with gluttonous determination. No confusion. It's great. Love her to bits.

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I'm hand exspressing at the moment and its taking me forever anyone got any tips?

Totally agree with bloss. Went back to work when DS was 15 weeks and had a nightmare getting him to take a bottle and wasted tons of painstakingly expressed milk. But you're not in that position ghosty so do what works best for you.