would you leave your 12 week old to go out for 3 hours?

[Ellax]

12 week old is ebf and we haven’t been separated since they’ve been born.

it would be to go out 10 mins away for 3 hours and I’ll give dh a bottle of breast milk.

Would you do it??

TIA ! X

Yes.

Why wouldn’t you? What’s wrong with a father looking after his own child for 3 hours?

If they've taken a bottle before, yes. Have done so with my 5 week old when he was 3 weeks.

Of course, why wouldn’t you leave a child with their father and a bottle of expressed milk? Have they taken a bottle before? That would be my only concern. That and my comfort, I might need to express before I went out or while I was out, depending on supply and timing. At that age I could go 4 hours without feeding or expressing though.

Yes...

Yes I would.

Yes if they've taken a bottle before.

Definitely

As long as you don't mean alone..yes.

If baby will take a bottle sure!

Yes but only if you know they will take a bottle.

If they’ll take a bottle and your comfortable then yes.

Absolutely not. Too risky.

Not something I ever did

Only if I knew my baby will be ok with bottle from DH

Why wouldn't you?

Yes of course but you need to do a test run with the bottle. My DC1 would just scream at a bottle and we never got him to take it. DC2 took it first time, no bother at all.

Have they had a bottle before? Of course it's fine for you to go but maybe practice DH giving a bottle before you go to see if they take it ok.
Both my EBF babies took bottles no problem but some babies can be fussy!

Risky because of the bottle? Or risky in other ways?

I didn't with either of mine as they didn't like bottles and I was able to take them with me anywhere I needed to go.

In theory, yes. In practice, I was on the sofa for the first 3-4 months and really wasn't feeling up to much due to the sleep deprivation.

Well I'd already been back at full time work for weeks by then with DH giving all the daytime by bottles so yeah from me.

Is this a post pandemic thing to make motherhood ridiculously hard?

Is this why the birth rate is so low??

Yes I would...I'd like them try a bottle a few time beforehand

Yes and I did.

No. I left mine at that age. Ebf as well. Husband was full of confidence that they would manage expressed milk in a bottle. Did they heck. I came home to a hysterical baby who threw up once I eventually nursed them. One of my worse memories as a mum. I really wouldn't do it. Ebf is literally exclusively breastfed. Not had a bottle every so often. That's literally the deal. There's plenty of time for bottles when they're a bit older.

It's important to give DH lone parenting time and for your baby to be able to take a bottle that way if you are ever taken ill and need a hospital stay it will be second nature rather than another stressful situation.