How did you combi feed?

[SassyPants87]

DD is 7 weeks old and EBF. I want to start combi feeding (eventually moving onto FF) but not sure how to start and wanted to hear how others had combi fed. I was thinking of giving her one bottle at night to begin with. Or do you think this will deplete my supply? Should I give breast and then just top up with formula and keep doing that throughout the day?

Would love to hear how others have combi fed

I just started slowly replacing a feed a day with formula. We had totally transitioned within a month or so.

I started by dropping the feed first thing as we were struggling to get out the door for the school run. I knew if I gave him a bottle at 7:30 he'd last till 9:30 after the school run. Kept all the other feeds until I wanted to cut even more out.

Start wherever you need to and work from there

I combi fed from five days because of low supply so I did top ups after each BF for first 12 weeks. Others who do it thru choice seem to choose a convenient time to give a bottle (eg when partner can do feed), see how much baby wants and then adjust quantities accordingly. If you don't pump at that time then your supply will reduce by that amount, but that doesn't matter if you're intending to combi-feed.
At 12 weeks I switched to 3-4 BFs and 3-4 formula bottles a day so about 50/50 BF/FF. I found it worked for us to alternate BF and FF. I combi fed for first year approx 50/50 and BF to 3.5 years in the end.