thread: can you mix breastmilk and formula together?

  1. #1
    Registered User

    May 2008
    Gtown
    666

    can you mix breastmilk and formula together?

    Ds2 is my third child and we are breastfeeding. I do however give him a bottle of ebm as his last feed before bed. I had issues with my ds never wanting to take a bottle and was only ever breastfed which made life difficult when I had things on I couldn't or shouldn't take her to.
    So I made the decision to give ds2 a bottle at an earlier age and he takes it fine. I bought those prima type packs of formula as a back up just incase I ran out of ebm.
    Just wondering if you can mix the two together. I don't want to give him purely formula incase it upsets him!
    I have to leave him for a full day in September so I am wanting to trial formula just incase my supply is low!

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Apr 2006
    Perth
    4,203

    I had huge problems getting DD2 to take a bottle and I was told by the CHN to try mixing formula and EBM together, starting with almost all EBM and then gradually swapping the proportions.