Planning on Breastfeeding... do i still need to buy bottles etc?

[~clover~]

Just wanted to add that my MCHN loaned me a pump when I had probs at 6 weeks. So that could be a back up.
I thought about the setting myself up to fail thing too, so I refused to buy formula til I needed it. I've had a tin in the cupboard since JIC, but usually have to throw half it out coz its open for too long without being used.

[Shanti]

Wow thank you all so much for your replies!! Sooooo helpful..

Daniellabella - so your DD didn't get turned off breastmilk after having formula a few times?? I hear stories and it worries me!!

Yep, i'm going to attend an ABA breastfeeding class early November in my area! So that should be good..... perhaps I should wait til then and talk to the ladies there and see what they recommend aswell? Before i go and start buying stuff....

I'm pretty keen to have a pump, bottle and steriliser on hand however not sure about having formula in the house (just yet)

[danniellabella]

Wow thank you all so much for your replies!! Sooooo helpful..

Daniellabella - so your DD didn't get turned off breastmilk after having formula a few times?? I hear stories and it worries me!!

No she didn't at all. After she first got babysat, I decided to try 1 bottle a day so she was used to bottles which made it easier for being babysat. Then I got slack and didn't give her bottles for several weeks which made it really hard when I went back to work and she started daycare. Her first day of daycare she refused to take the bottle which is when I decided I had to do 50/50 for a while however after a short time that wound up in stopping breastfeeding.

[StrawberryMumma]

I wouldn't be too worried about getting bottles and a steriliser. I agree with MantaRay, if you need them then you can get them later. If you are really worried though, maybe just get a few 'cheapies'.
I think sometimes if you have bottles, formula sitting there it can possibly be a bit tempting IYKWIM. I'm definitely not saying this goes for everyone, but sometimes in those moments where you feel under pressure from breastfeeding it's easy to think that giving bub a bottle if it's sitting in your house (EBM OR formula) is an easier solution when it's not. If you are keen to just have bub take the breast plan for that I say!

I agree with the other girls about the Medela Swing. I think it's a great little pump. But I don't think a pump is a neccessity either. But there has been a handful of times where my pump has given me a whole heap of relief when I was bursting! I think if you run into a few troubles, you can easily hire a pump then or decide that it's worth buying one. Depends on your money situation I guess.