Can anyone offer words of wisdom?

[islablossom15]

I'm currently pregnant with dc3

DD1 was bf for a few days before swapping to formula, we had latch issues and I wasn't aware of the info and help available to me at the time so decided to bottle feed. She thrived on formula and is now a happy healthy 2 year old.
DD2 was successfully breastfed for 10 months however I had an awful time getting her to take a bottle (it just wasn't happening) I loved breastfeeding but found it difficult because I had baby on boob what felt like 24/7 and ended up breastfeeding a lot longer than I had wanted too.
DD1 and 2 will be just shy of 2 and 3 when this baby is here, initially I decided breastfeeding again was the way forward, no sterilising, waiting for bottles to cool etc but as time goes on im thinking about formula feeding. I'm going to have my hands full there's no doubt about that so it would be really handy if DP could feed baby at times. We have discussed combi feeding and expressing but feel expressing would make things harder for us with the time needed to do it and we would rather just do one or the other to keep things uncomplicated, I am aware of the positives of breastfeeding and will factor that into what ever decision I/we make. Luckily I am not due until December so have time to overthink things through.

Breastfeeding would be the obvious choice for baby, but for myself and my family I do feel formula feeding is the way to go. Can anyone offer any advice?

With DD 1 I exclusively BF as she refused the bottle. 2nd time round, DD1 was only 18mo so I wanted to mix feed just so that I knew I had one feed in the day that somebody else could help with whilst I spent time with DD1. I also wanted DD2 to be used to bottle so that I could leave her for a few hours if I needed to go out etc. But at the same time, i wanted to breastfeed because it made the cold winter night feeds so much easier to pop DD2 on feed, and go off back to sleep again. I also did a short period of co sleeping.

I stopped bfing at 9 months. Increased formula feeds and now fully switched to cows milk.

For me this absolutely worked. If I was to have a 3rd I would definitely do mixed feeding again. I think I struggled with pnd first time around. So 2nd time around I knew that I wanted to mix feed and had no guilt in introducing formula to her.

Sorry just to explain I think part of my feeling low when DD1 was born was that I felt like I was always attached to her without a break. Like I was just there to sit on the sofa and feed, feed, feed...and I didn't want to repeat that. But saying that DD2 was an easier baby (no silent reflux) so bfing was easier and the cluster feeding wasn't as bad. Maybe I was more experienced too?