I remember one evening with a friend, while I was pregnant with my first baby, chatting and gossiping about and seriously judging a mom friend we knew, who was ruining her «breastfeeding relationship,» by letting
her husband give their baby a bottle of formula so she could sleep at night.
On the flip side, REPLACING actual feedings with pumping — or skipping feedings entirely while
your husband gives the baby a bottle of pumped milk — can cause undersupply.
Not exact matches
Just last week, Jill Duggar's
husband got reamed for
giving his
baby a water
bottle.
My
baby is 14 days old & I breast feed through the day and once at night, my
husband gives him a
bottle with 130mls of my breast milk for the other feed in the night but my
baby still wants my breast afterwards.
For me the solution was for my
husband to
give the
baby a
bottle when he got home from work.
A little earlier than I was referring but I think they just steadily improved practices of infant feeding over time because there was significant mortality associated with «artificial feeding,» though it was less the milk itself (my
husband says they traditional
gave goats milk to
babies whose mothers couldn't feed them), than the practices associated with delivering non-human milk to infants (e.g., dirty
bottle teats, spoiled milk).
3 weeks later
baby was still unhappy feeding I was exhausted, nipples were sore my
husband begged me to
give a
bottle (which I did) I then got seen my another Midwife shortly afterwards who examined him finally and saw his tongue and referred me to have the procedure straight away.
So, what happens is if, oh god I'm so tired, I can't wake up right now and oh gosh well maybe that one
bottle of formula might
husband can
give the
baby right now and then you know I'll just sleep and you don't wake up to pump or whatever and then that's where a lot of moms say, oh I didn't have enough milk for my
babies.
I brought my breast pump so that my
husband could
give our
baby a
bottle while I was away.
On Thursday, my
husband will have to
give the
baby his first
bottle and keep him fed from about eight in the morning until six or seven at night.
As my
husband took Arielle to the living room and
gave her the
bottle, I wept in the bedroom, bewildered at what was happening, and feeling disconnected from my
baby at a time when we most needed to connect.
The first few times you nurse or
give your
baby a
bottle, ask your
husband or mother to dole out a handful of small, special treats, like chicken tidbits, to your pet.
I am starting to go back to work, leaving my
baby with my
husband and grandma so they will be
giving her
bottles of breast milk.
Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my
husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the
baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to
give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else
give the
baby a
bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing
baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).
One pictured a mother lying dead or passed out on the floor of her kitchen while her
husband gave a
bottle to their
baby.