If You BF And Give DC A Bottle of EBM Per Day

CA2006 · February 2009

When do you give the bottle? ?DH used to give it to DS during one of his night feedings to let me get some sleep, but now DS is only waking up once/night, so that seems silly. ?Should I have DH give DS the bottle right before bedtime now? ?What do you do?

noimnotmarried · February 2009

i just started doing this and right now my mom gives him one in the morning (she lives with us) because she will be caring for him when i go back to work.

candreco · February 2009

We don't do a specfic time, just whenever it's more convenient. Sometimes it's while I'm cooking dinner, sometimes right before bed.

Kari Merks · February 2009

We do the bedtime routine together, but DH feeds DD a bottle before bed (and I pump while he does that).

dawnzer · February 2009

We do it before bed. ?She gets fussy at night and want to nurse?constantly, so we just give her a 7 oz bottle of BM that takes her about an hour and a half to drink - but she will sleep 9 hours after that!

ditto PP on pumping while DH does this.?

Valerie120408 · February 2009

I make the bottle one of the afternoon feedings (around 5pm or so - we feed on demand) - I want to BF in the morning when I'm full and I like to BF him to sleep at bedtime.

Rangergal9 · February 2009

Right now DH gives her a bottle around 7-8. She is still adjusting to taking a bottle and will spit up more with the bottle so he'll hold her after and then put her down to sleep around 9. THen I feed her at 11-12 (before I go to bed), and then she wakes up again around 3-5 and I feed her. I have to feed her then because my boobs are very full. Its not bad because then she falls back asleep for another 4 hours.