I am combi feeding my baby but not directly breastfeeding, only expressing. It’s going a lot better than I expected so far and I’m only giving one bottle of formula at night before bed, purely to fill her up more, not because I don’t have enough milk. I know I could probably not do this but it’s working so we’re sticking with it for now and the plan was always to switch to formula eventually.
I had set out with the aim of doing this for 6 weeks. It is extremely time consuming and physically hard on my body but I’m now building up a huge freezer store of milk so thinking I could stop at a couple of months but keep giving my expressed milk until it’s finished. The dilemma is we are going on holiday when baby is 4 months and obviously it’s impossible to take our freezer with us. I’d really like to have stopped by then to ‘have my body back’ and be able to enjoy a drink etc.
Would I be able to just solely formula feed that week then go back to combi feeding when we’re home do you think to use it all up?