Bottle for baby?

[thepurgebegins]

I had baby boy 2 a week ago. He is currently breastfed. Now with my first I remember giving him a bottle at night of formula but I can genuinely cannot remember for the life of me when it was. I want to say it was from 2/3 weeks and it helped with cluster feeding. For those who introduced bottle when did you? The only thing different this time is it wouldn't be formula it would be my milk pumped out. He takes the dummy at night for a few seconds to soothe himself. My mum said maybe leave bottle this time however I would want baby to take a bottle for when I go back to work. Granted i have a year off but some babies I know who weren't given a bottle at the beginning never took it after. You think you'll remember everything with second baby but not me 😅 thankyou

I feel like we started from scratch with our second too. It’s like you purge it all from your mind, only you also didn’t do the new parent prep this time haha!

We have been giving DD expressed milk since she was about 2 weeks old. Never had any issues between bottle and breast. Like you, I know a few whose babies haven’t taken a bottle at a later stage so we wanted to ensure we avoided that!

We started with a bottle a day, usually the evening, at about 2 weeks. DH always did it.,

@Btowngirl oh thankgod because that's exactly how I feel! 😂😂

Thank you it sounds like we are on the same lines. I think ill do it then too as this one is cluster feeding alot at night and generally staying awake; for past two nights had to resort to co sleeping for a few hours. Hopefully a few oz from bottle will help.

Your baby shouldn't have a bottle from 12 months anyway though, it's really a bad for their teeth.

Re pumped milk instead of formula, just be aware they may still want to go on the boob after finishing the bottle. I know mine did and the midwife said it's normal, their instinct is to cluster feed in those early weeks. I think formula fills them up and knocks them out in a way that breastmilk doesn't.

We only introduced a bottle around 6 weeks and didn't have any issues. I could never give a bottle, he never accepted it from me, only from dad/nanny.

I have a bottle of formula a day from day 2 - for months, only DP could give a bottle, baby wouldn't take a bottle from me. No problems with supply etc until baby finally dropped all night feeds.

@thepurgebegins no definitely not just you 😂 the other posters have reminded me that I should probably say that I did pump whenever DD had a bottle for the first 3 or so months. She had one sporadically around convenience though depending what we were up to with our older DD. Youngest DD has and continues to be happy taking a bottle from any of us though despite still BF now. Assuming you want to maximise your supply if you aren’t going to use any formula this time!

@WhatHaveIDone889 my first dropped breastfeeding at 1 so obviously had to give more of the bottle. His teeth are perfect. I want to breastfeed longer this time but the bottle is for when DH is looking after baby when i go back to work.

We started with the bottle between 2 and 3 weeks with my daughter. I am expecting my second and I will probably try to start at a similar time too. She was a very sleepy baby and had to be stripped to her nappy for every feed for the first 2 weeks and it was once she was a bit more alert that we introduced the bottle a couple of mornings so my partner could take her and I could get some more sleep.
I'd like to introduce a bottle this time around so my partner and i can still alternate bedtime with my daughter or at least I can do it a couple of times a week.