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Nursing vs. Expressed milk fed through a bottle
Hello,
I just had my second child 9 days ago. My first is 21 months old. At this point, I'm expressing breast milk and feeding it to my newborn from a bottle. However, while I feel that this is an optimal solution for my situation, I am having regular guilt trips because of this. Here are the reasons: 1. I hold my newborn as much as I can, but not on my breast. Is this enough? 2. He's a big baby (born at 9lb). By feeding him through a bottle (with my milk, not formula), am I increasing his risk of obesity? What do you think? Are my concerns valid, or am I just making myself crazy? Thanks, Elana |
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Nursing vs. Expressed milk fed through a bottle
"elanamig" wrote in message oups.com... Hello, I just had my second child 9 days ago. My first is 21 months old. At this point, I'm expressing breast milk and feeding it to my newborn from a bottle. However, while I feel that this is an optimal solution for my situation, I am having regular guilt trips because of this. Here are the reasons: 1. I hold my newborn as much as I can, but not on my breast. Is this enough? 2. He's a big baby (born at 9lb). By feeding him through a bottle (with my milk, not formula), am I increasing his risk of obesity? What do you think? Are my concerns valid, or am I just making myself crazy? I don't know about the stats on that second one but basically I think you are making yourself crazy with those particular concerns. If you are holding him (or someone is) for each feed I certainly wouldn't loose any sleep over the bonding. I do think that exclusive pumping is much more difficult in the long haul even though it seems easier right now. It is also riskier as far as your supply. It may be worth it to try to get him back on the breast for those reasons, I don't know? -- Nikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Brock 4/06 Ben 4/06 |
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I don't know about the stats on that second one but basically I think you are making yourself crazy with those particular concerns. I don't think it's entirely crazy, for a long time, it's been known that formula fed babies are heavier and 1yr than breastfed babies, but not understood why, more recently the belief seems to be that this is because babies take a larger amount from bottles than they would naturally require from that feed - kind of like the way a baby can appear satisfied at the breast, but if a bottle is then offered, might take it and eat some. I think the numbers came in at 1-1.5oz extra per feed, which is a lot extra per day and it will add up. I'm not aware of any studies comparing ebm in a bottle to either formula of breastfeeding directly, but it wouldn't be surprising if the same thing happens, though as it's more easily digested, the affect should be less. Obesity in toddlers is getting surprisingly common. Even so, I don't think it's a big factor in bottle feeding breastmilk or breastfeeding directly, maybe just something to keep at the back of your mind if baby starts climbing up the centile charts, to keep an eye on whether it is just there natural variation from the norm, or if it's the start of being too heavy. Cheers Anne |
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Nursing vs. Expressed milk fed through a bottle
On Jun 25, 2:05 pm, elanamig wrote:
Hello, I just had my second child 9 days ago. My first is 21 months old. At this point, I'm expressing breast milk and feeding it to my newborn from a bottle. However, while I feel that this is an optimal solution for my situation, I am having regular guilt trips because of this. Here are the reasons: 1. I hold my newborn as much as I can, but not on my breast. Is this enough? 2. He's a big baby (born at 9lb). By feeding him through a bottle (with my milk, not formula), am I increasing his risk of obesity? What do you think? Are my concerns valid, or am I just making myself crazy? Thanks, Elana I think you needn't be concerned. DH bonded well with DD and he never nursed her ;-) (and rarely bottle fed her). You can bond in many ways. I guess I'd wonder why you'd choose to exclusively pump, since that is so much more work than nursing, but if you're happy about that, then I wouldn't worry about it. I do think baby gets something special from the skin to skin contact, but you can also do that without nursing. I wouldn't worry about obesity either unless you're consistently overfeeding. Let babe feed as long as he wants, don't force him to finish a bottle if he doesn't want to. |
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Nursing vs. Expressed milk fed through a bottle
On Jun 25, 3:05?pm, elanamig wrote:
Hello, I just had my second child 9 days ago. My first is 21 months old. At this point, I'm expressing breast milk and feeding it to my newborn from a bottle. However, while I feel that this is an optimal solution for my situation, I am having regular guilt trips because of this. Here are the reasons: 1. I hold my newborn as much as I can, but not on my breast. Is this enough? 2. He's a big baby (born at 9lb). By feeding him through a bottle (with my milk, not formula), am I increasing his risk of obesity? What do you think? Are my concerns valid, or am I just making myself crazy? Thanks, Elana Bottle feeding breastmilk versus straight from the breast is not a contributing factor to the *risk* of obesity. Unless you have a nipple that flows so fast baby can't stop sucking to give a ready to stop signal, babies really can stop sucking on a bottle and give a signal or two that they are done. Also, my breastfed baby has 10 pounds on his 2 siblings that were formula fed. lol. I just feel compelled to share with you that pumping becomes a complete drag after a while, although it can appear to be a solution to a problem here and there. I had never been so happy as the day I put that darned thing away. lol. A baby will stimulate your supply much better than a pump will. Also, trying to exclusively pump can be a contributing factor to a shortened breastfeeding relationship, and in turn in many cases, a shortened length of time the baby will receive even the pumped breast milk. It isn't always the case, but it is more often the case than not. |
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Nursing vs. Expressed milk fed through a bottle
elanamig wrote:
1. I hold my newborn as much as I can, but not on my breast. Is this enough? 2. He's a big baby (born at 9lb). By feeding him through a bottle (with my milk, not formula), am I increasing his risk of obesity? What do you think? Are my concerns valid, or am I just making myself crazy? My sister bottlefed her twins with ebm five years ago. She's now about to have another baby, and this time she's definitely going to breastfeed. Her reasons: 1. It's easier (no pumping, no sterilising). 2. Her twins slept very badly and were very attention-seeking for the first couple of years. She thinks they might have been insecure because of missing skin-to-skin contact (sort of your reason 1). However, I think it might have had more to do with the fact that she was a single mother at the time and (despite lots of help, especially from my parents) somewhat overwhelmed by taking care of two babies. 3. Both twins didn't develop their mouth muscles properly, because they didn't have to suck enough. However, this was mainly because my sister is impatient, and she increased the size of the teats' holes with a hot needle. Neither of them is overweight. Obvisously this is just one non-representative example. HTH, Karen |
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