Any tips on supplementing?

Question

My baby is only 4 days old and the ped has recommended we supplement with pumped breast milk/formula to get her weight back up. Doctor recommended we give her 1 ounce extra at every feeding. She’s lost around 1lb since birth. I have pretty flat nipples so she wasn’t latching well at the beginning and now I have to use a nipple shield. Does anyone have any tips? She’s been so fussy and I already feel like it’s confusing for her to go between a bottle and breast at so young. I hadn’t planned on giving her a bottle until right before I went back to work at like 3 months.

Answer

My daughter needed supplementation too because of size and breastfeeding trouble. Dr Brown preemie bottle nipples helped a lot. They require the baby to learn to suck. We also used nipple Sheilds and honestly that helped with the switching between bottle and breast because the plastic feel in the mouth is essentially the same and they learn to suck when they feel it.  Within a month my daughter could seamlessly transition between bottle and breast and that was a blessing when I had to go back to school to finish my grad degree. In the meantime that month was hard, but stick with it!

Answer

I breastfeed and supplement euthanasia formula and my son is 4 weeks old. He has been fine and no nipple confusion

Any tips on supplementing?

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