Do you breastfeed and bottle feed at the same time?

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I know they say not to because nipple confusion. I have a 3 day old newborn and started her on my breast but then moved to bottlr but she still will look for my nipple (but she takes a bottle just fine) just wondering if anyone does both and things work good?

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Yes. I introduced a bottle at 2 weeks so I Could sleep at night and there hasn’t been any nipple confusion.

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My daughter is almost 4 weeks old and has been on both bottle and breast due to the fact that my milk was very delayed coming in. Shes exclusively breast fed now but once in a while we give her a bottle of pumped milk but I use a nipple shield so I think it helps her not feel confused. She usually hesitates with the bottle a little since she doesnt get it often but doesnt resist it. I do prefer to just nurse her cuz pumping is a lot of work

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I introduced the bottle at 5 weeks because I had to go back to work at 6 weeks and I needed to know our son wouldn't go hungry during my 12 hour shift. He took right to it and we never had any problems. He definitely prefers the breast though.

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Sometimes it depends on the baby(: My son latched at the hospital but when I gave him a bottle, he had a hard time latching after. I have lots of friends though that go back and forth with breastfeeding and bottle feeding with no issue. I may have done it too early and he seemed to become somewhat lazy when I tried to breastfeed 😆 With the bottle he didnt have to try as hard to get the milk vs having to work harder to latch and suck while nursing.

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I try not to bottle feed my baby but if I’m not home & I leave him with family for a couple hours he takes a bottle but he usually gets a bottle a day that I put vitamin D & gripe water in it but in all honesty he prefers nipple over bottle☺️😊💗￼

Do you breastfeed and bottle feed at the same time?

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