It's a personal decision so no right or wrong, but i feel like a different person since going to combi feeding. Wanted to bf for 6 months and pretty much got there and thought i'd give up completely but when it came to it I felt happy to carry on with it in combination with ff as he only wants one feed at night and I can chose what bf I want to do in the day. Like i say, no right or wrong, but this is working well for me personally and I think LO has taken to it well coz it happened gradually and he still gets some booby time a bit longer! Lol! X
the best bits are times like yesterday when i came home from college, my mum looks after alyssa and shed had her bottles like normal and when i picked her up she nuzzled into me and wanted to bf and then fell asleep in my arms really contented, i get gummy smiles round my nipple in the morning, dont have to make up a bottle straight away, never have to listen to her screaming hungry cos i can bf her while i wait for kettle to boil or bottle to cool down and if were out and about and im caught short i can bf her but i can have time away and daddy can feed her too. i wont have to introduce formula as a new thing when shes older and fussier and i know she takes a bottle well lol. i try to bf most feeds and just top up but knowing that if i need to i can skip a feed and just give her a bottle is bliss. she has 3 or 4 bottles a day maximum and it works brilliantly for me. i felt bad at first when i had to start giving her formula, then worse when she got lazy and cba sucking the milk out unless i was engorged but its all settled down now into a nice routine of morning bf, bottle at 11 and 2, bf about 4 bottle at 6 ish and bf round 8 then bottle if necessary to get her to sleep for 9
