How many bottles did you need when you mostly breastfeed but do some pumping and possibly supplementing?

Question

I have a good amount of 5oz bottles, mostly from the free registries. And got 3 9oz bottles for baby shower so far. I mostly plan to breastfeed but would like to pump so my husband can help or if I'm away. Wondering how many more bigger bottles I should plan to need.

Answer

In reality BF babies never need the biggest bottles as they’ll never have a feed of more than 4/4.5oz

Answer

We use usually like 2-3 smaller bottles (4-5oz size) a day. And then I use 2-3 larger bottles (8-10oz) for storing milk. In total we probably have 20 bottles and I thought that was insane. But once we started using them it seemed to be a good amount since we usually keep a bottle or two in the diaper bag, we gave one to my parents to keep at their place, we’ve lost some, etc.

Answer

We have three 5oz and three 9oz. One stays at daycare and we bring milk weekly.

How many bottles did you need when you mostly breastfeed but do some pumping and possibly supplementing?

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