When to introduce bottle and pacifier

Question

Hey ladies! I have been ebf my little one. She is 2 weeks old. I have heard conflicting information about ehen to introduce bottle and pacifiers. Has anyone had experience with this?

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My little one used me as a pacifier so I introduced a paci at wk 3, it saved my nipples and my sanity. At week 5 I had dad introduce a bottle, as I was heading back to work at wk 9, it took a few tries with me out of the house but he took it by wk 6. I have been a working, pumping, breast feeding mommy from weeks and we are on week 23. Although we do have our frustrations at times we have never supplemented. He has his preferences like needs a morning bottle from daddy, and barely let's me get through the door after work before he's yelling at me to feed him. But he is only getting breast milk, and he is a hefty boy wearing 9 month clothing at 5 months old. Almost reached  our first goal of 6 months. Hoping to make it a year, but taking it 1 week at a time after Dec 7th. 😉

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Bottle at 2w and pacifier about two days later and no issues. But my situation is a bit different as I use a nipple shield. So my experience might not be a good reflection of the norm.

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I gave my daughter a pacifier on day 3 and I introduced a bottle around week 4

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They say no pacifier until 4 weeks. I did it at 3 but he finally took to UT at 6 weeks.

The bottle I had to do from the beginning since I supplemented.

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I had to give my guy a paci at just a couple days old bc he was using me as a pacifier. He got his first bottle from dad at about 2 weeks. He is 4 months now and has had no nipple confusion whatsoever.

When to introduce bottle and pacifier

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