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Anonymous wrote:My husband and I are expecting our first child. I will taking 4 months of maternity leave. I work a job where pumping isn’t possible. I’m deciding if I should breastfeed and switch to formula once I go back to work, or use formula from the start. I’m not even sure if I will be able to breastfeed. Would you breastfeed or use formula?

Start by breast feeding and at the end of each session offer an a ounce of formula so your baby gets used to the bottle. My 2nd never got used to the bottle and would not use one (even filled with breast milk) when i was gone.

Also, you can formula feed during the day, and bf at night. It isn't all or nothing.

OP said she isn’t interested in breastfeeding once she goes back to work, including at night.

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I are expecting our first child. I will taking 4 months of maternity leave. I work a job where pumping isn’t possible. I’m deciding if I should breastfeed and switch to formula once I go back to work, or use formula from the start. I’m not even sure if I will be able to breastfeed. Would you breastfeed or use formula?

Start by breast feeding and at the end of each session offer an a ounce of formula so your baby gets used to the bottle. My 2nd never got used to the bottle and would not use one (even filled with breast milk) when i was gone.

Also, you can formula feed during the day, and bf at night. It isn't all or nothing.

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I are expecting our first child. I will taking 4 months of maternity leave. I work a job where pumping isn’t possible. I’m deciding if I should breastfeed and switch to formula once I go back to work, or use formula from the start. I’m not even sure if I will be able to breastfeed. Would you breastfeed or use formula?

Dust breast feeding and at the end do am ounce of formula so yuppie baby gets used to the bottle. My 2nd never got used to the bottle and would not use one (even filled with breast milk) when i was gone.

Also, you can formula feed during the day, and bf at night. It isn't all or nothing

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Anonymous wrote:If I knew I would have to wean by 3-4 months, no, I would just go immediately to formula.

Why? Why not just wean at 3-4 months?

Because from what I've seen in my friends group and professionally (I work with a lot of parents/kids) with "just weaning" at 3-4 months has been awful and extremely stressful. Some babies refuse to change their feeding method, refuse to eat all day, and it is just a nightmare. Try going back to work with an infant who refuses to eat all day while you're gone. Formula is an excellent and healthy choice.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the people saying their babies had issues with breastmilk, it may have been because of your diet. If you’re dairy and wheat free while nursing that can help with colic. Generally the proteins in breastmilk, minus certain inflammatory foods, are much more digestible than formula.

Nope, it was the breastmilk. Colic is the we don't know what's wrong with your child and don't care to figure it out. What you are describing is a medical issue.

What? I agree with the PP that an adjustment to the mom's diet solves many issues. My kids were all sensitive to casein. While I was eating milk products (even a slice of cheese), they had "colic". Unrelenting crying, gas pains, screaming, not sleeping, etc. After that, a new baby.

Glad it helped yours, but not for many of ours. OP doesn't want to breastfed and that is ok. Formula and reflux meds were our lifesaver.

OP has stated REPEATEDLY that she DOES want to breastfeed.

+1

Talk about some posters wanting to push their own agenda! If they were so secure in their decision, they wouldn't be on here trying to convince everyone that breastmilk (the stuff that babies are SUPPOSED to eat, that's the PERFECT food for them, that's custom made to YOUR baby, and further customized to YOUR environment and the germs that YOUR baby is actually exposed to) is something that's inferior. It's like the twilight zone.

Anonymous wrote:If I knew I would have to wean by 3-4 months, no, I would just go immediately to formula.

Why? Why not just wean at 3-4 months?

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Anonymous wrote:If I knew I would have to wean by 3-4 months, no, I would just go immediately to formula.

Lazy.

Ah, another one of the Breastfeeding Militia shows her face.