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Hi all,

I want to breastfeed, but my OH, also wants to get up and do a night feed, and to feel a bond with the baby, feed when he can.

What do I need to get for this. A whole sterilising kit, like tommee Tippee, so it has bottles and bags, so I can freeze milk, and then get a seperate pump, to express milk?

So confused!!!
 
We want to do this too! We have bought the Tommee Tippee electric breast pump, sterilizing kit plus a few extra bottles, so we now have 10 bottles in total ( we are also doing this so our boys can feed her too as they want to, they are 12 & 13) I went in Home Bargains yesterday and also managed to get milk bags out of there, they are doing boxes of 25 for £1.99! I also got the Tommee Tippee sterilizer and breast pump from there, much cheaper than most other places :) x x
 
exactly what you said! I've bought the electric tommee tippee pump as it was £50 so just had to get it! That came with 2 small bottles and a storage cup, with microwavable steriliser. Will be buying some freeze bags too.
 
A man that wants to do night feeds?! Wow! I'm breastfeeding and my husband did the winding, he's loads better than I am.

I bought a manual and an electric pump (both tommee tippee) which came with a bottle each and steriliser box.

Dads can do other things to bond with their child, feeding isn't always one of them x


 
I plan on breast feeding and hubby is gutted too but he knows its beneficial to the baby. I plan on expressing after a couple of months so that he can help out. Your OH can help out in other ways i.e bathing, burping, and general cuddles. :)

Also, its always best to get bottles etc just incase you are unable to breast feed. Some people, although they so want to, for one reason or another can't. My friend was very ill after giving birth and could not breast feed and she felt terrible but it just wasn't possible. Always be prepared for any eventuality!xx
 
Thanks girls. Trust me my hubby is going to be trying to do everything, he is like a small child on christmas eve, and I wouldn't change that for the world, most days he gets the book out to tell me what our baby is up to. He really wants to do as much as he can in the evenings, as he wont be getting paternity leave, he is at uni, only doing a year course, so he can't take any time off.

I think I will go with the Tommee Tippee kit and also get the pump, of course I would of gotten bottles, just in case it doesn't go to plan with the feeding.
 
i want to do a bit of both for the twins but i know in reality breast feeding long term may be difficult. so do u think i will need 2 sterilisers and loads of bottles, a breast pump and those milk bags? didnt even know about milk bags! also r electric sterilisers best and electric breast pump? x
 
I personally wish I'd bought a different pump, but hey ho I couldn't afford a medela or other brands. Electric is quicker x


 
Just to be aware for anyone who's hubby is generously offering to do a night feed with milk expressed earlier in the day. When I told a midwife we were planning to do this she suggested it might not be as great an idea as it sounds. The milk you produce differs throughout the day, so the milk you produce in the middle of the night has hormones in which will help encourage the baby (and you) to go straight back to sleep. If hubby is giving LO milk you expressed earlier in the day it won't contain this hormone. Also, baby will have to wait longer while DH gets up and prepares the milk for it. If you do the night feed you can just pick baby up, feed, then put him/her straight back to sleep - much less hassle all round. Also, you won't wake up in the morning with massive boobs feeling like you desperately need to be 'milked'.

Best thing to do to get hubby to bond is do exactly as you planned and express some milk for hubby to use to bottle feed, but let him take the first early morning feed so you can get a bit of a lie in.

We have also been told that if we want to feed like this not to do it for at least the first, I think it was, 6 weeks. This is to make sure both you and baby are comfortable breast feeding, and also because your milk has different properties at different points of the feed, so baby will only get that if they feed from you directly. If they feed from a bottle the milk will be all mixed up and if they don't finish the bottle they might not have taken all the colostrum from the feed.

I realise that all probably makes decisions like this more complicated, but it's really helped us in thinking about how best to feed our baby when he arrives.
 

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