Did you formula feed or breast feed your newborn?

Answer 1

I breast fed both my boys. The first one for a year and the second for six months. It's a personal choice, but I loved it and felt so well-connected with my boys through it, in addition to it being the best thing health-wise for them. Good luck!

Answer 2

I formula fed both my children. They say that breast feeding is supposed to be much better, healthier, but I just never had the desire to do it. Some people are just not meant to breast feed & it shouldn't be held against them.

You should do what you feel is the right thing for you.

Some pros & cons I came up with:

Breast feeding
cheaper
healthier
public feeding is uncomfortable
you are the only one that can feed the baby unless you pump (that could be a pro or a con, depending on your own feelings)
I know some mothers can be unsure if baby is fed enough

Bottle feeding
you don't have to worry about being uncomfortable when you feed in public
your husband can take care of midnight feedings
healthy
you know how much your child is getting from the measurements on the bottle -- no guessing

I'm sure there are more, but my decision was based upon being uncomfortable with the idea of breastfeeding...it just wasn't for me. MANY people tried to talk me into it with my first child, but I just wasn't comfortable

Answer 3

Breastfed baby #1 for 15mo, baby #2 for 3.5yrs and baby #3 is still going at 22mo.

Problems such as the major one described by the Mamma above can be avoided. That is the MOST extreme case I have evr heard and I work in the Lactation Feild.

Nursing doesn't have to be a complicated thing, but in our society, we inpose rules and regulations on the nursing pair and this always leads to doubts and assumptions.

Here is a 99.9% Fool Proof Method:

1) get the Latch right, if it hurts, its NOT RIGHT, keep asking

2) nurse OFTEN, even if this means every hour, especially in the first weeks when your baby is trying to make himself a supply. NO SCHEDULES. Nursing often will also bring in your milk faster. Listen, with my first it took 3 days, I was using a pacifier, with my 2nd it took 2 days, I was also using a pacifier, with my 3rd it took 12 hrs, no pacifier, constant nursing round the clock.

3)no nipple substitutes, at least for the first 6 weeks....this means pacifiers, bottles etc

4)no supplements, this will interfere with your baby building his supply

5) good/helpful support/resources

Here is what i have found to be a reason not to breastfeed or to not be able too:

1) false information/lack of support

2)breast reduction surgery, although it is still possible even with fewer ducts

3)drug abuser

Women just don't "not produce milk". *Something* was said or done to a Mom in that situation to make her believe that. Maybe she was told to pump, couldn't get much and thought she had no milk. I can tell you from experience, I have NEVER been able to pump forw than an oz, EVER and I breastfed 3 kids!! maybe she never got that *full* feeling, well some just don't and that's not an indicator of a suffient milk supply/

Ack, I could go on but I'm really veering from the asker's question...

Answer 4

The OVERWHELMING evidence that says breastfeeding is better than bottle feeding means when my little ones arrives I will try my hardest to do that.
That being said, I know that some women are physically unable to do so, which means you'll have to formula feed.
There are TONS of good websites about how to be a successful breast feeding mom.

Answer 5

My oldest was formula and my youngest two were breast feed up until about 6 months

Answer 6

I did both. She would try to nurse but nothing would come out when she wanted it. I tried to pump and we were only getting maybe 2-3 oz. But after she started going to daycare they would fill up when I was out so once I got home the milk was all over me. She likes her formula even though I had to switch from Enfamil to Simlac. I also added a little cereal in her bottle when she was around 3 weeks old. She was premature.

Answer 7

i do both. my daughter is 3 weeks old and always hungry. i find that breast feeding during the day and bottle at night is good. I want her to get the proper vitamins from breast feeding as well as being full.

Answer 8

I feed my newborn formula. I didn't have an option my milk never came in for me to be able to breast feed.

Answer 9

Breastfed. Didn't even consider it an option. Breastfeeding may not be the right choice for every mother, but it is the right choice for every CHILD.
If for some reason I couldn't BF (this is EXTREMELY rare if you have the correct information and support) like, say I had a double mastectomy, I would have bought breastmilk from a milk bank.

Answer 10

I breastfed all 5 of mine, the eldest only for 6 weeks,
#2 for 6 months
#3 for 4 months
#4 for 9 months
#5 for 5months.