DP wants to bottle feed our EBF two week old.

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He has five kids from previous relationship who were bottle fed. My child from previous relationship was EBF. He says he feels useless and is worried he won't bond with new bub. I'm feeling stuck on what to do.

I agree. I think a lot of men who pressure partners to bottle feed want a 'nice' baby job to get them off the hook for other jobs.

I was expressing after a couple of weeks. Meant that my milk supply was great, as breasts were always emptied fully and I could go to bed early and DH could do the dream feed and do the first half of the night. Worked great for us. Expressing is a faff, but I thought it was great. Obviously electric pump (I had Medela)

Dh told me he felt like a bit of a spare part when dc1 was tiny. We decided he would make bath time his thing - I was careful to keep right out of it and not offer advice/ tell him what to do etc. it was really lovely and worked really well as being their special time. Was really nice for all of us when he was working too.