A Question about the benefits of pumped milk compared to direct feeding?

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Specifically about breast milk compostion.

I have often read about how the breast milk compostion changes often to suit your babies changing needs - how does this work if your expressing milk with a pump to feed to your baby - how does it know when to change etc etc?

Pecka,

I know it's a bit late but just wondered how you were doing?

Just wanted to say I exclusively expressed for 6 months, then started supplementing with small amounts of formula and had stopped completely at 7 and a half months. I won't say it was easy, but you sound like you are doing all the right things and if you carry on expressing every 2-3 hours to get your supply back up (it will go up I am sure), then when you are confident and the baby is 3-4 months you can test out dropping pumps one at a time, very slowly to make sure you don't lose supply.

I think as far as the immunity thing goes, you might not get the germs through saliva, but you end up sharing a lot of your baby's germs anyway don't you? I think it might just be possible that since most people hang around their baby a lot of the time, they will come into contact with the same germs, and produce the same antibodies that are needed? Alexander got his first illness (a cold, strangely enough, in the week that he started getting only 1 6oz bottle of EBM per day (just over 7 months).

I really hope it works out for you. I found it worthwhile.

Anna xxx

lol at snogging no additional advice but good luck