Introducing a bottle for breastfed baby

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Pfb is 2 weeks tomorrow. After what I assume are fairly normal issues getting established (dd not opening her mouth wide enough to latch properly, and pain from that) feeding seems to be getting better and better, good supply etc.

I plan to keep breastfeeding, but would like to introduce an occasional bottle of expressed milk so we have the option of dh doing a night feed, or later, me being able to leave dd for a couple of hours.

Any advice on how and when I'd be best to do that?

I don't know the answer but my baby is 11 days and I would like advice in this as well. Hopefully some one will be able to advise .

We introduced a bottle of ebm at about 3/4 weeks, and got lucky as DD took the bottle that came with my pump, so we didn't need to experiment.

Goouck with it, I found it helped if I was not in the room while DH gave her the bottle. She is now 16m,and will only really take half a bottle from me!

Good luck, even!

Also worth bearing in mind is when you express milk, some ladies produce excess lipase which will make the milk taste funny and bitter and slightly soapy after freezing. You can eliminate that by scalding the milk before storing.

Thanks bippidee :)

We got DS (4wo tomorrow) to take a bottle yesterday on the first go. DD took ages to accept a bottle and we started at more like 9 weeks so I think a bit earlier is easier, at least in our case (or maybe children are just all different!). DH gave him 2oz but he refused to take the last oz I had expressed from me.

We used a Medela bottle that came with my pump.