hi Jetta

Firstly, I would say it's not my ideal choice to be combining BF/FF, but it's just the way this particular cookie crumbled! I try to start every feed with BF if Zac will take it and then when he's had enough I give him 120ml formula (but only if it's been roughly 3 hours since the last bottle). As we're co-sleeping we mainly only BF thru the night, but some nights he needs a bottle as well - trying to just go with the flow. The MCHN says his needs are probably greater than most babies the same age as he is quite long. If he was exclusively formula fed he would be getting around 180ml or more per feed I think. I also try to put him back on the breast once he's finished his bottle so that he still associates feeding with BBs ;-) it also stops him from screaming which he tends to do when his bottle is finished...

There are a couple of women in my mothers' group who are doing similar things - one is doing BF for the first feed of the day and the dream feed, and bottles for the rest. I'm not sure what the other woman is doing exactly.

It's a bit challenging, and can be upsetting when he refuses BF in favour of a nice fast bottle, but he's still getting the goodness of some mummy milk, so I've got to be happy with that. I'm lucky that he has never had a problem with nipple confusion.

Thanks for the nappy tip - I do point his penis down, but I wonder if sometimes it moves... Surely his nappies aren't too small - he's in the same ones. Maybe I should try another brand, although I thought Huggies were supposed to be the best?