Giving bottle of expressed milk
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Whenever we've done it we don't time it. It's just whenever she wants it. I'll judge what is probably going to be last feed before we go up to bed. Last night she had 3oz.
@Chelsea yes do already and burp every 20 ml!
I breastfeed at around 9pm, give or take by half an hour, and then my partner gives a bottle of expressed milk at around 1am. We usually offer 5oz and he takes about 4oz most nights. He definitely doesn’t go back to sleep as well after a bottle, I think he really relies on the comfort of the boob x
@Chloe does he sleep from say 10 PM until 1? And do you wake him to feed the bottle?
@Zeynep he falls asleep around 9ish and wakes naturally at 1/2am for his first feed which he has from a bottle and then tends to wake again at 5am and then up for the day at about 8am, both of which I do via the boob. I never wake him for a feed, I make the most of the sleep I can get as he’s well over birth weight and packing the pounds on no problem 😂
@Chloe so you feed on the boob around 9 and he stays put in the cot? Lucky 😍🥲
@Zeynep yeah we get into bed as a family at about 8:30 and get cosy, feed on the boob and let him sleep on me for half hour and then pop him in his crib next to our bed! We put a heated blanket in his crib whilst we’re feeding so that when it’s time transfer him it’s nice and toasty and he doesn’t wake up from the temperature change! (we obviously take out the heated blanket before he goes in it lol)
Have you tried maybe ‘pace feeding’ the expressed milk from the bottle. This way your baby will be able to take what they want and you’ll be able to tell if baby really wants/ needs it x