Can I give occasional formula and still sucessfully breastfeed?

[spiderpig]

Hello, any help would be much appreciated!

I am currently breastfeeding my ds who is three weeks old . Things seem to be going pretty well, but he is feeding very frequently which I do understand is to build up my milk supply but which is also pretty exhausting!

I have been trying to express when I can to give my DP a chance to do a feed or two but I havn't been doing it often as the baby has been constantly attached to me.

So I was wondering if introuducing an occasional bottle of formula would be ok? As in would it affect the breastfeeding?

TBH it would really help if I could especially since I have other young children so whilst I am happy to feed him for hours on end when I can it just isn't always possible.

Any advice much appreciated

spider the ring sling will be very useful I think - persevere if you feel it is not working at first
it will certainly make you feel more comfortable in the evenings I would think

sabire - can I pick up on what you said - where are you getting the information re formula and auto immunes/ceoliac?

I ask as I have looked into this and the studies that showed the link have been repeated and no link has been proved.

I'd really like to see if there are more up to date studies on this that supercede the ones that superceded the originals, if you know what I mean