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[quote=Anonymous]I can definitely empathize with your wife. My wife gave birth to our son and was planning on exclusively breast feeding, and then she had a severe post-partum complication that meant we ended up needing to do some formula and pumping for quite a while (although she did end up breast feeding for a long time). I can't tell you how much it helped my bonding with my child to feed him with a bottle. When my wife went back to breastfeeding full-time, my son went through a phase where he really didn't want me at all, and that was tough - and even now as a toddler who has been weaned for a while he more often wants her for comfort. I am now expecting out second, and while I hope to breastfeed, we will try to also do some bottle feeding to help give my wife some time with our new child.

You will find your own balance, and it might involve bottle feeding or not. Like many things as a two-mom family, there are some similarities for the non-gestational parent to a dad, but I think for a lot of women it can still be quite different since it is outside the norm of the experience for most other women. [/quote]

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