Paced bottle feeding - rapid fire with a nurse! #babyfeedingtips #bottlefeeding #babyfeeding #baby

[rickyd]

That's how I learned to feed my baby! He was born one month early and is almost 6 weeks old now. We really really struggled with breast feeding and tried a few kinds of nipple shields and bridges. I ended up giving up and strictly bottle feeding for about ten days and started really pacing him. Taking the bottle away every 10 or 15 sucks and burping him every half oz or so. I had started trying nursing again for a few days and the day before he turned one month old he nursed like he'd been doing it all along. I had been so worried he would not take to breast feeding after our initial struggles.

[tess]

I love how informational all these shorts are fr and i don't even plan to have an infant for the next decade 💀

[amysimpson]

I also gotta say that I am thrilled for this generation that they have even better pumps. I was a school administrator and it took serious work and coworker support to work in those pumping sessions.

There were times when I knew the pumping schedule wasn’t going to work.

I would pump every single time I had ten minutes on those days. I didn’t even mind if it was one hour apart.

The women in our school all used my office to pump. We were successful because we supported one another.

[jessicaroseelizabethp.]

Thank you! I need to pay more attention to milk starting to leak out of her mouth while breastfeeding from the breast.

My grandmother, age 89, and a retired nurse is the best baby bottle feeder I have ever met. She is perfect at everything mentioned in this video!!

[TheCatnipCinema]

I don't know why, but I absolutely love watching you talk. Not only are your videos helpful and informative, but you keep your videos fun and entertaining. Something about the way you talk and your mannerisms, I just absolutely love watching your videos! Thank you!

[aznkat]

I love your content! I'm showing this stuff to my daughter for her first baby on the way. You have some of the best most supportive content and I have told her I'm not going to let her get stressed out over feeding baby as long as baby is fed!

[amysimpson]

I exclusively nursed all mine, but it has been 14 years since I weaned my last baby. My husband stayed home and I worked. We coordinated pumping and feeding.
Success came from:
1. We used the Avent Bottles and never moved beyond the level 0-1 nipple. It was more work to take the bottle through that low flow nipple.
2. My husband snuggled them while giving the bottle and my babies never held their own bottle.
3. I never wanted my babies to sleep through the night. I kept them in a bedside sleeper and nursed them as much as they wanted. It kept my milk supply up and gave us the time we missed during the day.
3. I didn’t want to be away from my little ones and never gave bottles when I was not working
4. I got up early enough to nurse them twice before work.

I was lucky to work close enough to nurse at lunch time very often.

Fed is best.
Nursing was something important to me. Because I worked, that part that I could give and the bond that I had with them during that time was worth the very little sleep I got.

I am not saying to sleep with your baby. I did use the bedside sleeper and an in bed sleeper with sides to keep them safe, and yet be able to nurse them easily throughout the night.

It worked for me, but I know it might not for everyone. My kids were all four years apart, so I had plenty of time between each. When the last one came along, I had a middle schooler, elementary and preschooler. It helped having that spacing for each.

[katherinebrakeman]

Yes!!! 🙌🏻 awesome way to put it. My daughter has been exclusively breastfed however I have some chronic & major health issues so if at any time I felt I could not feed her she was given a bottle of formula by anyone but me. It was also a way to protect my mental health too. She NEVER got confused. She actually ended up rejecting the bottle all together around 8months. We had introduced a straw for water so when formula was needed (mom away for a procedure) she was given formula in a cup with a straw 😆🤷🏼‍♀️

[tessa]

Thank you for this!! My 3 week old just got back to his birth weight, and we graduated from needing our lactation specialist. She had mentioned side laying when bottle feeding my LO, but this is such a great ans quick explanation of what she meant! Thank you!! My husband and I were struggling to understand until this!

[muppetsrule]

I did this. Really loved how it helped with spit up and having them not over use the formula. I also recommend that if they do finish the bottle wait 15 minutes before offering more so their stomachs can tell they are full.

[heatherheaven]

This is the only way I could feed my LO. He is a heart warrior NICU graduate, he has dysphagia, and he came home with an NG tube(as that was how he was getting most his feedings while recovering from surgery). He couldn't breastfeed due to complications from his heart surgery and was on a medical formula specifically for his condition.
This is the safest way to feed your baby IMO. Information like this can make a big difference for you and your baby, and create positive associations with bottle feeding so there aren't aversions due to bad experiences.

[wheredidtheavocadosgo]

are none of us gonna talk about the "OH! my baby's naked 😀"

[janek]

Tried everything, but my baby just decided he liked the bottle better. I don’t think nipple confusion is the best name for it, more like feeding preference. We all have preferences why would babies be different.

[adina]

My midwife recommended Medela Calma when I had to supplement because my baby wasn’t getting enough milk. It works only with breast milk, and requires baby to actively suck like the breast.

[GoldenSpaceDoll]

This is so helpful! My daughter is now 6 days old, and she has a strong flow preference. I don't produce enough or fast milk just yet, it's getting better but people keep saying if I give her the bottle she will get confused. So it's nice to see more tips and tricks.

[SD-ejgr]

Tina, do you think you could do one about greedy breast feeders? I have a two week old that seems to drink and drink until she's painfully full and then always ends up spitting up a LOT and then seems to have a tummy ache after because she whimpers and groans for like 5-20 minutes after feeding when I'm trying to burp her (this is when the spitting up happens). I feel bad letting her do it, but then I also feel bad if I try to pace her because she gets so frustrated trying to root for the nipple! Is there any solution? Why is she doing it? It's not like she's starving, I feed her every time she roots or does her hungry cry, which is anywhere from every hour to every2-4 hours.

[jaxongarrison]

These are great tips. My baby is a week old and I’m currently having to supplement with formula. She relaxes and spits out the nipple at the breast but she would drink until she’s sick at the bottle. These signs are going to save me and baby girl a lot of discomfort ❤

[Caffeinatedwife]

My second son decided he didn't like any bottles around 5 months, he was not confused he knew exactly what he wanted. Made clean up really easy without all the little bits to clean.

[alexandraortiz]

I think nipple confusing is real. My baby never opened his mouth wide when I was using the de browns bottle. Once I switched to to the Philips natural bottles I saw how much wider he would open his mouth after but sadly he was already used to shallow latching and I was exhausted from switching between pumping and nursing him at the same time so I had to give up. TBH I wish I never used the dr browns bottles. I do see that dr brown does offer the wide bottles now though.

[MzEllaful]

For my first baby, I accepted the similac pre-made bottles from the hospital. I thought the convenience was wonderful. Little did I realize the bottles had a fast flow nipple that sabotaged my breast feeding since the breast was much slower and required more work from the baby. Just another way big formula companies are trying to ruin breast feeding.