Infant Nutrition Bottle Feeding Tips

Bottle Feeding Baby

Bottle Feeding Tips

Buying a breast pump is an excellent idea, unless your planning on staying attached to your baby for the next 6-12 months!  (Check here for information on how to pump breast milk stress free.)

You deserve nights out, don’t feel bad, your entitled! If you’re exclusively breastfeeding your baby it can be a challenge to start bottle feeding baby. Most doctors or lactation consultants say to wait 6 weeks before introducing a bottle to your baby, to ensure proper nursing habits. The choice is up to you, from my experience waiting too long makes taking a bottle harder on your baby. You will notice that your baby probably won’t take a bottle from you(mom). Babies can smell your breast milk from a cross the room. For the first little while, until your baby gets accustom to taking a bottle, it would probably be easier to get someone else to give the bottle to your baby.

Choose a bottle that is right for you and your baby. This may take some experimenting!

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Use a slow flow nipple (Stage 1) to ensure the flow of milk is right for your baby. As your baby gets older you can switch the flow of the bottle to a fast flow nipple.

Always check and re-check the temperature of the milk in the bottle.

Tricks of the trade!
Getting your breastfed baby to take a bottle can be very hard, especially in the beginning. A trick that I use to use is the switch-a-roo.

Place your baby in your arms as you would if you were going to breastfed. If your baby uses a pacifier put it in your babies mouth, letting your baby get use to sucking the pacifier. When you feel they are content, pull the pacifier out and quickly replace it with the bottle.

This may take a couple of tries to perfect but eventually they will get the idea and start sucking.

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