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pipermakes3 (728.4 days ago)
when my last baby was born i wanted to bf. i was in nursing school and was too close to done to quit. classes started back 4 weeks after he was born. i hated leaving him in day care that soon. i wanted him to be use to a bottle b4 if left him . so at 2 weeks old as soon as he got a good handle on latching on. i stared pumping a little and giving it in a bottle. he did fine back and forth. so i pumped when i could till i had just enough frozen for the first day or two. then id send frozen breast milk and bottles w him. he did just fine. he wld nurse at home and have breast milk at day care. id pump while car pooling and on break.

Peachy09 (Ashlyn) (729.1 days ago)
my 1st went back & forth from bottle to boob easily from day 1, but my 2nd took a little training. I nursed exclusively for the 1st 12 weeks but he had to go on the bottle for daycare, & still gets only breastmilk. I`ve been able to pump all he needs & then some so far, so no formula & we haven`t started solids yet so I`d say he`s technically EBF. We nurse when i`m at home mornings/nighttime/evenings/weekends & he gets BM bottles at daycare & with Daddy before I get home. On days I work he tends to be difficult to get to nurse after he`s gotten so many bottles, but we`ve been able to get back on track at night & on weekends.

shesxchaotic (729.1 days ago)
canadababy: I specified because in my mind, exclusively BF means no formula. My son wouldn`t take formula even if I offered it to him. It is an either/or because it has been in the past. I`m not going to push my son to take a bottle and risk it interfering with his breastfeeding. To me, it isn`t worth it. I`m a SAHM and I can leave my son for up to 2 hours. I`m totally ok with that and so is my husband so why mess with something that makes us all happy?

canadababy (729.2 days ago)
What did you specify `only BFd, no formula`? My DD was BF`d 95% of the time, either nursing or expressed milk and she had a bottle of formula *maybe* once a week. She had one occasion where she didn`t want to take a bottle from me in the beginning but my DH gave her the bottle that time and since then there weren`t any issues at all. I don`t think it has to be an either/or situation, you need more than 2hrs of alone time too :)

shesxchaotic (729.2 days ago)
Me too! I like that he doesn`t take a bottle in a way. I love breastfeeding more than anything!

christinarose (729.3 days ago)
My daughter is almost 6 months and WILL NOT take a bottle ever. I left her with my BF for 3 hours once with an expressed bottle of breastmilk, while I was helping my parents. I nursed her just before I left and thought I would be back in time, but if she was hungry enough while I was gone she would take the bottle. He said she cried and cried for an hour, while battling with a bottle, before falling back asleep. That was the 1st and last time I would leave her like that. She won`t take a bottle no matter how hungry she is. And that doesn`t bother me. She`s with me all the time and that`s how I like it!

shesxchaotic (729.3 days ago)
Not true. My son will not take a bottle in any circumstance. Even if he`s hungry. Plus I don`t really think denying him the breast to take a bottle is the best plan of action. We tried a few different bottles but he doesn`t like them. And as far as going out, we can still go out but no longer than an hour and a half or two hours. And I`m fine with that.

T3POandR2D2 (729.3 days ago)
My son hated bottles. He`s 15 months now and still will not drink breastmilk out of a sippy. NBD because I`m a SAHM.

juels101 (729.4 days ago)
I can BF no problem but just cannot pump for some reason, so I had to say no, though they have taken suckies (soothers) so I`m guessing bottles would be possible if pumping was available for me.

KristinaA (729.4 days ago)
my son takes BM from a bottle at daycare only. When he`s with me I always bf him. we were very by the book about when to introduce the bottle and he makes the transition back and forth really well. It sounds like you have something that works for you, so that is good. I might try to get him to a point where he would take a bottle so that you can get out for a night or something though.

shesxchaotic (729.4 days ago)
Must be! My mom said my sister and I took a bottle when needed but my brother wouldn`t at all.

smiling politely (729.4 days ago)
my son never liked bottles, but when my daughter was a baby, she would. i guess its an individual thing.

shesxchaotic (729.4 days ago)
My son is 5 months old an won`t even take a bottle. Luckily I`m a SAHM. He took the Nuk bottles for a bit on rare occasion but he stopped nursing well so we stopped. I didn`t want to cheat myself out of experiencing BF-ing and it was creating an `either/or` situation. Either he would nurse well OR he would take a bottle from time to time. Oh well! I love love bf-ing and wouldn`t trade it for anything!! :)



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