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I have seen many women do both i don't see why it would be a problem if your baby is hungry they'll eat!

I pumped and nursed with my son. The optimal way to go about this is to not offer a bottle until your baby is between 2-4 weeks old. Offering too early will cause them to not latch on to you. When that first bottle if offered (by your husband), you should probably not be in the room. baby's can smell their mom's breast milk and may not take the bottle if they see you and are used to getting milk from you. This is what we did with my son and it worked great. After the baby is a little older, they will be fine with you being right there while some one else bottle feeds.

remember though that pumping can cause your milk supply to decrease since a pump can't get all the milk out as efficiently as your baby.

My baby wouldn't latch even after all the lactaction coaches and using shields. But I was determined not to put her on formula because I wanted to give her the healthiest option, and it's cheaper. So, I pump, exclusively. People say that pumping makes you have lower milk supply, but my little girl is five months old and 17 and strictly on breast milk. She gets MORE than enough. You just have to make sure you pump ten to fifteen minutes at a time every two to three hours. It also depends on the pump. Try to get a double, because if you use a single pump you lose a lot of milk out of the other breast when the let down occurs.