Combi feeding helppp

[Katyx3]

So my first born is 16 days old and I'm really struggling to express, when I say struggling what I mean is it just won't work! I'm so disappointed.
I met with my boss yesterday who EBF she said she had the same problem and to try and introduce bottles at some point early on as she left it to long and her daughter wouldn't accept them at all!
I'm thinking of giving him a ready made bottle for his next feed?
I would still want to EBF morning and night just don't want to miss the boat and not be able to get any help!
Any one been in similar situation?? X

So is the problem that you're struggling to express

Or that baby won't take a bottle?

How is BF going generally? What level of combi feeding are you aiming at?

Some babies just don't take bottles, regardless of when you try or they stop taking them later on (mine...)

What sort of pump are you using OP? Could you give yourself a couple of days off expressing to try and relax then have another go?

If you’re having problems, the BFing Helplines are always there. Why not give them a call this morning?

I wouldn’t worry about expressing if it’s not working for you. I wouldn’t stress too much about bottle refusing at this early stage either. Most babies will accept a bottle later on when needed. I’m not actually sure introducing one earlier makes a difference if you have a bottle refuser but it could jepordise breastfeeding if baby prefers it. I guess it depends how much you want to carry on b/feeding but 16 days is so new, you have plenty of time to introduce a bottle yet.

I couldn’t express milk, but breast fed exclusively for 6 months, then went back to work and bottle fed and breast fed for a further 2 months.

My son would not take a bottle but I had one week before starting my new job to get him to, I offered water and let him play with the bottle, day 2 I added milk, he latched on a little but wasn’t impressed and day 3 he finally took the bottle. I wanted to feed until a year but once we started bottle feeding whilst I was at work he wasn’t fussed about breastfeeding anymore. So we stopped!

Oh and when I was breastfeeding I kept saying I wish he’d take a bottle, now we’re bottle feeding I hate it. Thinking I’d love someone else to do a feed, but not remembering instead of getting a breast out I’d be making up bottles, buying milk and sterilising bottles. The grass isn’t always greener!

Hey thanks for your feedback :)
My boss scared me saying her daughter wouldn't accept a bottle ever so it just panicked me!
He's 23 days now and still EBF :)
Thanks x

Oh and I have a nuby electric pump and now have SIL hand pump
I expressed very small amount with hand pump and when do it again will try to swap to electric once flow has started :) x

Mine mever accepted a bottle either. It doesn’t mean that you can’t go out or leave them sometimes. Both of mine would accept a cup and I went back to work around 9 months and carried on BFing. If you do introduce a bottle now, there’s no guarantee that they’ll accept it later anyway, there’s lots of threads on here like that

Try to relax a bit about it and get to a BFing siport grouo if you can, they’re great for taking to sone other local Bfing Mums and just having a and seeing what’s normal