Going to combi feeding

[marinova]

I dont know if I'm being silly to feel guilty over this. But in summary my lo couldn't latch (not through lack of trying) so for the last three months i have pumped and he has been exclusively feed on breastmilk via a bottle. However pumping 6-7 times a day is very hard work but i set myself the goal of getting to 3 months for him. My plan moving forward is to mix feed him now but i feel like I'm letting him down doing this. Am I being daft?

Not being daft at all! I did a combination up until 3 months, but it was mainly BF with formula top ups. At 3 months I switched to just formula because I found BF a lot more stressful than I ever imagined it would be. I wasn't confident with it and DS had trouble along the way.

I read somewhere recently that guilt as a Mum is a wasted emotion, it brings nothing to us at all! Our children are going to be the same whether we feel guilty or not. I suppose this is very true!

Do what's best for you and your LO. I felt very guilty, but my DS is now 17 months and the happiest little boy 😊

i pumped for months for mine its exhausting .I gradually switched to kendamil which worked well for mine much better than my last child.My last child was aptimal and spat up all the time .I still feel guilty nothing you can do apart from see that your child is happy and healthy

I'm just on the other side. I have been expressing for my little one and as you said, it was exhausting. She started sleeping for longer and I had been setting alarms to wake me up which seemed ridiculous as I should have been enjoying the sleep. I didn't want to stop though due to the pressure of it being best.

I now express every 6 hours, so 4 times a day. She has 4 bottles of breast milk and 2/3 of formula. This works so much better for us and I feel like I can actually spend some decent time with her. We bought the Elvie pump too so I can still have a cuddle while I'm doing it.

In regards to formula, we tried aptamil and baby didn't like it. I didn't think it mixed well either to be honest. We're now on cow and gate and getting on much better.

You will do what is best for you and your baby. All the best!

Thank you everyone its helped a lot. X