Rach.. i was thinking the other day and just now as i was bottle feeding Jess that i wish i just really stuck at it with booby feeding. But i guess i did it for a reason as we both werent happy back then. But Jess when after and before ive fed him a bottle will always go and try and suck on my boobs.. very strange. Ill have a wet mark on my shirt from his mouth. Ah well.. number 2 hopefully breastfeeding works for us a bit better.
if only someone had said to me you could try again once milk comes in or keep expressing and when you do get a good flow offer it to him, as it was I had nothing approx .5ml of colostrum expressed from birth to day 4 when I decided enough was enough and bottle feeding was the way to go, also Jase was behind me 100% with bottle feeding as it would give him a chance to feed well I am lucky if he feeds jack once a week but that is another story

Rach, Kell - is there any reason you can't do one feed/snack a day? Not because you HAVE to but because it's a great bonding thing, and you can get some of your antibodies to bubs so they don't get sick from germies they eat off the carpet...River's eating the carpet now...hang on, just gonna move his little whingy butt.
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when my milk did come thru day 8 or 9 I thought about offering it to him but he had been so sick and with bottle feeding we knew he was getting x amount Jase was worried about confusing him etc, I should have just done some more research

as for bonding the fact I sit and feed Jack up to 8 times a day means we have plenty of bonding time, and becuase I am the only one aside from jase who feeds him it is plenty bonding, I made a rule when I switched to bottles nobody but jase or I would feed him for at least 6 mths, well my family were fine with that IL's not so much and have actually said can't wait till he turns 6 mths so we can give him a bottle, well they are in for one hell of a shock cause I am not giving him up for feeds that os our time

ok I went totally off subject there hey