Is the nursery nurse right about this?!!

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I'm expressing milk for a few nights out next month. She says that I need to give dd a bottle of ebm or formula ('its not the end of the world to give a few') every other day or she wont be able to take from a bottle. I kind of planned to give her a bottle the night before to make sure she was ok, but when she was a couple of weeks old with perseverance she managed it. Am I being naive to think it will be the same case again? If i start giving her bottles of ebm I won't have any supplies for my escape!!

Nursery nurse from where?

Depends on the baby - some take a bottle fine from the word go, some don't. Try now, maybe, see how she does - only need an ounce or two. Make sure the milk's v warm - body temp (obv not too hot!).

The "it's not the end of the world to give a few" re formula - undermining talk, imo. See here for more info re the impact of "just one bottle"

rubbish
I got DH to give one test bottle the week before, dd wolfed it, didn't give any more till the night itself. Was fine.

how old is dd?

I tried to give dd1 a bottle (for [practice) whne she was 10weeks old so i could go to a wedding for a couple of hours
it was awful - she screamed for hours - i ended up not going to wedding as i didnt want to put my poor mother through all that just os i could go out

some babies take it fine

its impossible to tell

(what I meant with the 'rubbish' was: I found if she takes the test bottle ok you don't need to keep giving it, not that she will certainly take it and be fine - I know that some aren't)

You never know.

I never had/have any problems getting my babies to rake a bottle, whether ebm or f. Butr some people find that, despite trying to get the babty used to a bottle, one day she point-blank refuses. I wonder whether my success has been partly to do with the fact that I never gave my babies their first bottles, so they were used to them by the time I gave them a bottle?

PC, DS1 wouldn't take a bottle from anybody but me to begin with. DH tried, DS1 looked at him like "er, no, Mummy does the milk around here, what are you playing at?!"

Was fine eventually, but I bfed him first, then sneaked the bottle in...!

yes thats a good point MrsB

Like I said, hunker, 'you never know'

Our drs sends the nn to do weight etc and check up after initial visit. I'll give her a try again in a couple of days then. I thought though that DD is rather a little guzzler and shouldn't be too much of a problem. Ds only ever had the occasional bottle of ebm and he was ok too... imo the nn advising giving a bottle of ebm every other day just puts more pressure on you and doesn't help successful feeding surely.

i think every other day is a bit much

DS had v occasional bottle of EBM when I was out in the evening when he was small (under 6 months). IIRC DH did a practise one in the daytime, but otherwise just gave bottle if he woke up when I was out.

I think he had them so rarely that it wasn't a case of 'getting used to them' really. That and he was half asleep anyway

I would do a couple of test runs - they can forget if you don't have bottles for a while. Maybe not every other day but wouldn't leave it until the day before.

Would second the tip about sneaking the bottle in while they're on the breast.