When to introduce bottle

Auburngirl32

Hello all,
I am ebf my LO is two weeks. I go back to work in 6 weeks and she will have to take a bottle while im at work. When should i introduce? I used tommee tippee with my 1st but she didnt latch until 4 mos so i was pumping for her. But she did go from this bottle to breast with no issues. Since this LO latched initially im concerned about nipple confusion. Thanks in advance.

Sarelnad

We introduced the occasional bottle around 4 wks with my son. He had no issues. We used a dr. Browns level 1 nipple. With my daughter we gave her a bottle at 2.5 wks. Same results. I think it is important to make sure that its a slow flow nipple so they don't prefer the bottle.

Also I wouldn't make it a regular thing until you have to.

cinderin

We waited a long time (10 weeks?). We used tommee tippee for a long time but when he started daycare he needed an even slower one so we switched to dr brown with premie nipples.

HisChamaoleGirl

We introduced LO to the Playtex drop in bottles with the slow flow nipple at 4w as I thought I would be returning to work at 6w and wanted her to be used to the bottle before then. We gave her one bottle a day up until she actually went to daycare at 10w.