Did anyone do only breastfeeding (no bottles of pumped milk or formula)

[Anonymous]

Actually simply baby-at-the-breast for the duration of need? Including after the introduction of solid food and cups of water.

Just curious because I don’t think I’m going to make it! I have a great supply, a growing happy baby, and enjoy the act of breastfeeding - and it’s not like I have any place to go with the virus out there but... I feel a bit “captive”. Baby is almost five months. I’ve never pumped either. I don’t even know if we have the right bottles for her.

Will this feeling pass? TIA

[Anonymous]

Why not pump? I don't understand.

[Anonymous]

Yes felt captive. Still feeling captive. DCs are teens.

[Anonymous]

No one is going to give you a gold start or note on your kid's college application "no bottle ever given!". If you want to free yourself from the demands of a baby at your breast all the time, go ahead! It's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not pump? I don't understand.

I’m not opposed to pumping, I’ve just never done it. Seems like a lot of work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not pump? I don't understand.

I’m not opposed to pumping, I’ve just never done it. Seems like a lot of work.

Eh, at least you won't have to haul pump supplies or milk to and from work. Like everything, it's kind of hard at the beginning and as you keep doing it, it becomes second nature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is going to give you a gold start or note on your kid's college application "no bottle ever given!". If you want to free yourself from the demands of a baby at your breast all the time, go ahead! It's fine.

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[Anonymous]

Yeah, I went the whole time with nursing until kids were about 14 months. Even after they started solid foods. And yes, I also remember feeling a little penned in at times but it passed. The honest truth is that I was just too lazy to deal with the pump, washing parts, warning bottles, etc. I was working from home so it wasn’t like I had to prepare the baby for daycare.

If breastfeeding is easy for you just push past the feeling for awhile longer.

[Anonymous]

No - there was no need to torture myself that way.

[Anonymous]

If you don't want to pump, buy some of the single serve powdered formula packets and a bottle or two. Use them when you need a break. (If baby has never bottle fed, it may take a lot of trying and practice. This is a good job for DH.)

[Anonymous]

Just most of the world's women.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t everyone feeling captive?

Pumping is a pain. I would have kept my baby at breast if I didn’t have to go into work.

[Anonymous]

I’ll own it. I pumped the first few weeks and then went to formula. I never breast fed. Your child will be fine, whatever you decide.

[Anonymous]

Pumping will make you feel far more “captive” than nursing. You connect yourself to a milking machine and wait. Then you wash all the parts.

Just keep going and see how you feel in a week or so. Plus your baby might not take a bottle and then there’s tears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I went the whole time with nursing until kids were about 14 months. Even after they started solid foods. And yes, I also remember feeling a little penned in at times but it passed. The honest truth is that I was just too lazy to deal with the pump, washing parts, warning bottles, etc. I was working from home so it wasn’t like I had to prepare the baby for daycare.

If breastfeeding is easy for you just push past the feeling for awhile longer.

1. Same. My DD was only fed from my breasts because I am lazy. No gold stars - I took the path of least resistance.