Combi feeding - experiences and advice please

[Alwaysworried9]

Hello everyone!

I have a breast deformity which means I may not be able to breast feed, or if I can I may not produce a lot of milk. One of my boobs has started leaking which I’m hoping is a positive sign (currently 6 months preggo)

I’ve heard of combi feeding and was wondering whether anyone had any experience with this?

How does it work? I’m a FTM so really clueless! Am I better off just bottle feeding from the start? I like the idea of my partner being able to bond with feeding too and he’s keen to be involved with this as well obviously. But if I can provide some breast milk I would like to do this too.

Any advice welcomed!

I combi fed my first as I have implants and only one boob produced milk so I breast fed during day and got premade milk and used them in the night time I also sometimes I have prepare milk on a day as well if I thought baby hadn't got enough breast milk I would recommend doing combi if you can as its best of both and they still get the goodness of breast milk that way xx

I'm combi fed dd1 from 8 weeks until 9 months (bf until 8 weeks and then introduced a bottle at 8 weeks).

It was 1 bottle feed from 8 weeks then increased at 6 months to 2 bottle feeds.

@Alwaysworried9 I had a really positive combi feeding experience with DD1 and intend to do the same this time too. Initially, I would get my partner to do the ‘late night’ formula feed at 11pm which meant I could sleep from 9pm-3am when I BF’d. This was fantastic because A) your partner can feed and let you get some sleep and B) you can BF during the actual night which is much less hassle than boiling the kettle etc at that hour.

Then as she got older we introduced more bottles and took the decision to stop BFing at 6 months. All I can say is it worked for us, people will give you a lot (and I mean a lot) of views on this but I would do the same x