Hi Ladies,
I keep seeing posts about people who are EBF and their children either wont take a bottle or they feel they should carry on as it's the best thing. I am planning to breast feed but also bought a pump and bottles as I presumed I would use these pretty early on so my partner could feed her too, especially when he's home in the evening with us - its such a lovely bonding experience. I was thinking we'd share the feeds pretty much straight off, all with my boob milk but some in bottles and some straight from the cow (me).
It would be great to hear some thoughts for/against/pros/cons etc.
Thanks as always xx
Hi Genine,
In my opinion i think its a great idea (if you choose to BF) To start expressing milk through a breast pump as soon as you can purely for the reasons you mentioned but more importantly so baby and father can also establish a healthy bond with eachother.
id consider the pros of EBF to be is your baby has had the opportunity of the best start in life and id consider the cons to be your child can become highly attached to you and therefore can become very difficult to being introduced to the bottle or being fed by anyone else.
there's also a Lil potential risk of the baby becoming slightly confused of latching onto the bottle teet or breast but i personally never experienced any problems with my LO as i also decided to start expressing when she was roughly 4 weeks old and she is now 4 and a half months old
x