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DH helping with feedings

cobi166cobi166 member
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When did you all have your DH start helping with feedings?  I read that if you are breastfeeding, you shouldn't do any bottle feeding for 4 weeks or something like that.  Does that sound crazy?  At what age could I pump and let him take over a feeding?

 

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  • kelly_reneekelly_renee

    LC and pedi recommended waiting till she was 3 weeks. DH gave her a bottle once EVERY night from the time we got home until week 5 when we got too lazy to amke a bottle and for me to pump, I'd just lay her in bed with me to feed her. She didn't have a bottle at all from 5 weeks to 8 weeks then "forgot" how to take the bottle then refused the bottle.Now she will take the bottle but is VERY VERY mad about it and sometimes she still refuses it. I wish we would have kept up with the one bottle a day thing.

     

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  • cobi166cobi166 member

    Okay...it's good to hear that giving one bottle a night won't necessarily stop him from wanting to breastfeed.  I would just like to give DH a chance to feed and have that time with the baby when we bring him home.

     

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  • MrsAmersMrsAmers

    I started pumping around 3 weeks, and from then on DH offered DD 1-2 bottles a week until I went back to work.

    The downside of having DH give your child a bottle is that you still need to pump during that feeding.  So, for example, if he gets up with the baby at 3am, you still have to get up and pump so it doesn't save you any sleep.  I would mostly have DH give DD a bottle in the evening or over the weekend when I wanted to shower or get something done around the house.  It worked best when DD couldn't see me nearby to request the boob instead.  :-)  

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  • Angela814Angela814 member
    DH gave DD a bottle for the first time somewhere around 4 weeks.  He may have given her the occasional bottle between that time and when she started daycare at 3 months.  Once I started pumping on a full time basis at work, there was no way I was going to pump again just so DH could feed her.  If I was going to have to pump at that time instead, then it wasn't worth having him help.  Pumping sucks.  I hated doing it.  He gave her bottles if I went out for the night or had a doctor's appointment or something and couldn't be there.
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  • tvbride04tvbride04
    We started bottles right away so DH could give DS one during the night and I could sleep for a few hours in a row.  DS never had nipple confusion or anything like that. 
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