I am planning to breast feed dc fully until about day 4 and then do one formula feed per day until 3 months (long story short- we want to try for another child very quickly due to ongoing issues with precancerous cells and this is when my next smear is).
I want dc to be used to the bottle as, if at 3 months, my condition is no worse, I plan to stop bf so that period returns. If things are already worse, I'll need treatment in which case I'll just bf for longer and then we'll consider if we should try for dc3 in time.
I bf dc1 for 10 months and would ideally like to bf dc2 for longer but not at the expense of not having a third child. I know guidelines are not to mix breast/ bottle at first yet, in my experience, guidelines change all the time and many people I've spoken to found they struggled to get bf baby to switch to a bottle and we won't have the advantage of time on our side.
Any advice/ thoughts?
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Wiggy29 · 03/02/2013 10:22
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