Mixed feeding Guilt

[HyacinthsDaughterinlaw]

My DS is 3 mths old and has been having a bottle of formula for his last feed for 6 weeks. Last week I introduced another formula feed in the morning. Over the past 2 days due to Christmas/New Year stress ie being cramped in other peoples houses and not being able to get the bangers out in public ( sorry just not me) he has had 2 further formula feeds a day. I have noticed that my baby is not as sick or as grouchy after a formula feed and tends to sleep better. However, now I am feeling guilty about not giving my child the best start and worried that I might have damanged my milk supply. I am still feeding once during the night and for 1 morning feed. Baby feeds well from both bottle and breast. What would you do ? Breast or Bottle or a bit of both.

Thanks Lady in the radiator, I think I would like to continue with both but get the balance right. How do I go about boosting my supply?

you might want to read my thread...a couple down from this one 'i think its time to give up'

From my experience it matters not whether you feed them yourself or bottle feed to get a guilty stamp on your forehead! One way or the other someone will say: Aren't you feeding the baby yourself? (frown) or ...You're not still feeding the baby yourself...(frown)...or you tell yourself the same thing!!!

Do what you need to do to keep you and your little one healthy, happy and hearty!

Here Here asyouwere so true -

Good luck hyacinth I was just going to post myself as I have a 9 week baby and due to christmas and New Years and getting sick my DH gave my baby 2 bottle feeds in a row so that I could get some sleep and I wasted some precious time feeling guilty.

I did mixed feeding for a long time with DS and have recently dropped down to only a morning bf. I felt very guilty about dropping other feeds, but I found it too stressful and I spoke to a lovely hv who pointed out that I have already given my DS the health benefits and as I wasn't stopping altogether he would continue to get the benefit. I was so glad I'd spoken to her, because I felt I almost needed to get permission, even though it was stressing me out.

Ladyintheradiator is absolutely right - whatever you want to do will benefit DS.

As I understand it, boosting supply is managed by expressing or bfing more.

Hope it works

agreed bouncer...as you will know from reading my thread! you need to do what is right for you, not what people think is right. People have told me to give up trying to restart breastfeeding my dd...but i KNOW thats not the right decision...i have been quite down since it ended and am tryin my hardest to restart it, u need to do what u think is right!

I've given up feeling guilty wrt how I feed my child.

Anyway - doesn't matter what you do, there's always a window for guilt. Part of being a mum, I suppose.

Just to say thanks for your support. I did manage to restart the breast feeding (more by luck than judgement though)

Gorge2003 that is exactly how I felt! Good Luck