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Some babies get nipple confusion if you introduce a bottle too early. The nursing experts recommend waiting 4 weeks until bfing is well established before introducing a pacifier or a nipple. We had to give dd a bottle with medicine one time when she was around 6 days old. It was hell to say the least because she refused to nurse. It was so stressful. After that, I waited until week 4 and all was terrific. She went back and forth just fine.

im pumping exculsively because my breasts flow way to fast for my dd. Im having to pump often to keep my milk supply up but it is working well and is less stressfull for me.

I breastfed and bottle fed. My lo didn't have any nipple confusion at all. Some do and some don't. Honestly I don't know anyone that had a baby with nipple confusion.....The nurse at the hospital tryed to tell me the same thing about nipple confusion....I didn't care...

I breast and bottle feed and my LO is only 2 weeks. She doesn't have any nipple confusion at all. I have to do both because i'm not producing enough for her right now, so I have to give her formula sometimes after a breastfeeding session...... One draw back of soley pumping is that it does decrease your milk supply because its not the same suciton as a baby has...so you will probably have to pump more to get what you need.

Pumping and feeding exclusively seems like a lot of work to me...washing pump parts and bottles all of the time.

Didn't mean my answer to sound short - I am half sick and totally sleep deprived. My response is only from my experience. I pumped 3x at home yesterday and seemed like all I did was wash something!

I started out breast feeding but my son had latch on problems so I stated pumping when he was 3 weeks old. I continued to pump and feed him via bottle until he was 7 months old. i strongly encourage anyone who has the ability to produce milk and has fears about actually breast feeding to try pumping and feeding it to the baby vias a bottle. It definately allowed for me to bond with my son.

Those who pump exclusively are strong women. It's very hard. I had considered it but then saw how easy nursing can become and was glad I kept with nursing. I have to pump at work and when I travel and I hate it. I couldn't imagine pumping at home and then feeding the baby - my baby never would never just hang out for me to take 20 minutes to pump. It would have been a big struggle for me to make it this far exclusively pumping.

I agree. Pumping is very hard work. I have great respect for women who were not able to nurse and continued pumping.

It's called exclusively pumping, and it's a lot more difficult than breastfeeding. You have to establish your supply (which isn't established until 12 weeks) by pumping every 3 hours around the clock, just like a newborn would feed. You also have to wash all the parts after each pump session. A lot of women have supply problems when EPing, as well. If you are planning on nursing at all, you should realize that introducing the bottle is likely to make her turn down the breast - the bottle is much easier to drink from - although that doesn't happen with every baby, just some. I will be exclusively pumping, and I know it'll be tough, but I would prefer to give my little girl breast milk. About the supply decrease because of the lack of real baby suction, hospital grade and professional grade pumps are designed to imitate a baby's suction in order to stimulate milk production, and most even have a let down cycle and a sucking motion/speed similar to a baby's.

Excuse my language, but it's a pain in the a$$. I'm having to do that right now because my son won't latch, and I hate it. It's double work: pumping, then feeding the baby. Any advice would be appreciated.

second nature bottles are amazing for breastfeeding babies. the nipples are pretty much exactly like your own, if baby takes that bottle, maybe he'll take back to the breast. good luck

i will definitely try that. thanks!