Any Gina Ford breastfeeding mums?

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If so, when did you introduce the bottle feed? is it from one week? Did you have any nipple confusion problems?

LOL at KirstyAnn's "you'd think I'd done a poo in the room" !! Seems you've got much the same reaction on Mumsnet, OP. Ignore them, because routines DO work. Just know that sometimes your baby won't be exactly on time. Sometimes it will be 3 hours between feeds; sometimes 2.5 hours.

I follow the BabyWhisperer, which is brilliant and is a bit 'softer' than GF. My husband does a FF at around 8pm every night, after cluster feed at around 6pm. I then BF her for her dream feed at 11pm.

She's had the FF since day one. No problems here. No nipple confusion. They do say to let someone else do the bottle feeding as it can be confusing for the baby to smell milk on you and have to take it from the bottle.

BTW my wee girl is 6 weeks.

I haven't had time to read this whole thing but just on the first page I saw you said your baby isn't here yet. My experience is that I thought I would do Gina Ford before I had my daugther and was sobbing, really sobbing, within a week of having her when I realised just how very very very misleading she was. I wanted to burn her book. I threw it out of the window where it got buried under a mound of leaves.

Go with your instincts.

I really thought it would be like Gina said and it really isn't, you have to feed and feed and feed and feed.

all the very best for the birth and the first few gruelling weeks.

willowstar - I felt like throwing the book out of the window too.

Probably it come down to this- if the book works for your baby (and your baby is the type to fit in to routines easily), then you love the book.

If your baby doesn't sleep for the allotted time and you missed your window to sit down and eat your weetabix and cup of tea, then you'll hate it.

Personally I think the book is more designed for babies fed formula not breastmilk.

It takes away the mother's ability to use their instinct and be responsive to their babies. It also ignores the fact that the breast can be used to comfort and calm as well as give nourishment to a baby. (disclaimer IMHO)

I have in fact read the book but mine got eaten by mice - probably a fitting end.