EBF and going back to work

lstarr76

My LO is 9 weeks old and I will be returning to work in 2 weeks, she is EBF and I'm trying to introduce the bottle. How often do I bottle feed vs BF? I don't want to confuse her. LO has refused the bottle for the last 4 days we have tried a couple of times a days and final she took it tonight. I'm now not sure on how to balance things EBF, bottle and pumping. Please help.

mammamia24

Try only bottle feeding for the hours you will be at work, then nurse the rest of the time. This will set up a good pattern to let your LO get used to before you return. This is what we did for DS1 and it worked just fine.

mammamia24

Try only bottle feeding for the hours you will be at work, then nurse the rest of the time. This will set up a good pattern to let your LO get used to before you return. This is what we did for DS1 and it worked out just fine.

lil_jen051708

Are you trying the bottle? DS would only nurse with me and would take the bottle with mil or one of my sisters. Rarely did he take it if I were inthe house.

I didn't do a "trial run" of giving him bottles during daycare hours because he wouldn't take them from me. I just dropped him off at daycare with bottles and knew he'd be ok. I nurse pretty much for every feeding but occasionally if we are out, he takes a bottle. He actually doesn't have a problem getting a bottle from me now.

Cheerio B

We did one bottle a day for the few weeks before starting daycare. I had DH and the grandparents give bottles so he would take them from several other people.