BFing moms who supplement...SOS

Can you please describe how you do this?

when do you supplement??

how often??

how much formula do you give??

do you pump when he's taking the bottle??

TIA

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I breastfeed her for 10-15 minutes on each breast. Then when she's done with that, I give her 2 ounces of formula.
I don't pump.

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Re: BFing moms who supplement...SOS

I give around 1-2 bottles of formula a day--somewhere around midday, especially if I am out and maybe around 8pm-ish.

It's hard for me to say how much, because Abby fights the bottle so sometimes it's 2 oz, sometimes 4.

I do not pump at all.

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Re: BFing moms who supplement...SOS

I breastfeed DD for 10-20 mins each breast... then depending on if she's still hungry, I'll give her formula... I usually start with 1 ounce and work upwards if she's still hungry.
I will also give her a bottle if we are out somewhere... if I do that,then I try to pump after breastfeeding once that day for about 10 mins just to keep my supply up.

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In the beginning, I would breast feed and then supplement an oz or two. Then I would pump in between feedings.

This didn't help though so I stopped pumping, except when I needed some milk if I was going out and just used formula.

At five months she is up to abut 11 oz of formula and usually just breast feeds and night and in the morning. I can tell she is starting to wean herself since she likes the quick hit she gets with bottles

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If she would wake up and latch, I would feed on each side for 30 minutes and then offer her a couple of ounzes. She usually took it because I just couldn't make enough milk for her (no idea why though). I only supplemented after she fed so she would s u c k effectively.

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I went back to work at 6 months so this was my schedule:

I BF exclusively for 4 1/2 months.
Then I replaced one daytime BF with a bottle.

A few weeks later I replaced a second daytime feeding with a bottle.

From 6 months until 10 1/2 months, she's been on the same schedule:

Wake up at 6 am & BF

Bottle around 9:30 am (now she takes 8 oz, it was 6 oz for a long time though)

Bottle around 11:30 am (again, was 6 oz, now is 8 oz)

Bottle around 3 pm (little one- was 3 oz, now 4 oz)

I was BF her at 4 pm when I picked her up, but she does not need that feeding now & neither do I

6:30 pm: second BF of the day

I only BF twice a day now, and I will be cutting down to only the evening feeding soon. It has worked out really great for us.

Hope that helps.

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When I went back to work, I was able to pump at work but only during my lunch break. I always brought the milk I pumped from the day before to day care, then they also fed her formula during the day. I BF in the morning and at night, and exclusively BF on weekends.