Advice on combi feeding baby #2

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I am due in October and ny DD will be 18 months old. I have no family or friends around as I recently moved to a new country.

With my first last year I exclusively BF (just stopped recently at 24w pregnant). For the first month I expressed a bit for 1 feed at night that my husband was giving. But realistically I don't think this will be possible with this baby... too much time, efforts, logistics.

So I want to combi feed this one. Like BF as much as I can and give formula in bottles in the evening or when I need a break/help from my husband.

Anyone has done this? Any advice on how to do it? Is it better to give the bottle in the evening? Or more often? Is my supply gonna be affected if I dont pump when baby takes a bottle?

Thank you!

Following as I'm in the same boat and would like to do as you suggest!

I combi fed my son. I used 1 formula every couple of days - I bought the 4pack of pre made and used those in one week. I waited until around 7weeks to ensure my supply was strong and avoid nipple confusion.

With my DD I went back to work at 12 weeks, and also found that she was having some digestive issues (formula has probiotics which babies usually don't naturally so helped digestion), so I started mixing in formula. I pumped exclusively at that point, froze a lot of it, and we ended up starting with a 80/20 ratio breastmilk to formula and slowly changing it down to more formula until I wasn't pumping and the frozen supply was done. It felt good to keep her with milk for an extra month or so, and formula does taste different to milk, so I think by phasing it in, it made things a bit easier for the baby. I'm definitely planning the same approach for our second one. I've heard people say that they struggle to get their baby to take a bottle if they are breastfeeding and bottle feeding, but also my friend's baby definitely is taking some of each without issue. Sometimes it takes a bit of playing around to find bottles which have nipples most similar to yours too so there may be a bit of a preference from the baby. Mine was always bottle fed, so we never had that issue., but i've heard from 4 months + they can begin to show a preference (though who knows). Just something to try if your LO gets fussy.

Like you, I EBF my first. I waited 6 weeks to try to introduce a bottle for the odd occasion but she completely refused a bottle! Never had one ever.
With my second, I didn't wait 6 weeks and tried after about 1.5/2 weeks and he accepted. He has a bottle maybe twice a week and happily accepts a bottle of the boob. In the early early days of my husband did a bottle during the night so I could sleep a bit, I would usually wake up feeling full so would have to feed or hand express a little bit after maybe 6 weeks I can miss a feed and it's ok.