Paced Bottle Feeding - How to Bottle Feed Your Breastfed Baby

BENEFITS OF PACED BOTTLE FEEDING:
-Keeps your baby from overfeeding
-Aids their digestion
-Makes feeding more calm
-Prevents excessive weight gain and reflux

KEYS TO PACING BOTTLE FEEDINGS:

Hold your baby upright at least a 45 degree angle or more
Can use side-lying position as well--just make sure head is higher than hips
Baby's head should be slightly tilted back

Tickle baby’s lips with the nipple and have them latch on
Lips should flange and be relaxed
Make sure the bottle nipple isfully inserted

Hold bottle mostly horizontal
Some families worry about air swallowing--burping will help if that happens

Every 20-30 sucks, tilt the bottle down but leave the nipple in baby's mouth
Wait until baby sucks again, then tilt bottle back up so baby is drinking

When baby stops sucking or unlatches, end the feeding

Burp after every ounce if needed/preferred

WHY IT HELPS:
This is especially important in childcare settings
Babies will end up preferring the fast flow of bottle feeding and may reject the breast
They may overfeed and stretch out their tummies and no longer be satiated on normal and appropriate amounts of milk
Paced bottle feeding will have the baby take 2-3 ounces every 2-3 hours (normal amounts of breastmilk)
Babies who are bottle fed have a higher risk of obesity at one year of age whether or not they’re breastmilk or formula fed
You won’t make more and more breastmilk over time—the volume stays the same

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[vibhu]

This is the fourth video I am seeing on the topic and I wish this was the first I had seen’! Thank you!

Is the 5oz limit you describe towards the end valid for 3 month old babies too?

[ClaireMeri]

Just used this video to introduce the bottle to our son at 6 weeks old before our first restaurant outing tomorrow. Thank you!!

[pinkielilz]

This is truly one of the best paced bottle feeding videos I have seen in the last 4 years. Thank you!!!

[randirice-smith]

VERY informative thank you for making this video. I’m a new mom and I’m planning to primarily breast feed my son when I’m home with the occasional bottle if my husband wants or needs to help with feedings. When I return back to work I’ll have him under someone else’s care so this is a great tool to help others see and understand our goals 🥰

[sheilabuck]

Great content. I'm baby's grandma. Some issues w/breast feeding, this explains the reason why for us old timers🥰

[alexislivingston]

Very great video ❤ wish more moms and caregivers knew this

[LittleLearnersLearn]

Thank you ! Very helpful !! My 2 months old will be starting childcare soon & I am implying that this is done correctly to ensure my needs are met ❤

[philliprothman]

Wonderful content! Now my wife feels comfortable leaving me alone with our son. Thank you for making this video.

[barbarabrooks]

Thank for help! Daughter is breast feeding and am visiting her to meet my grandson want to make sure do it right.

[richabisht]

I feel bad for not knowing some of these things earlier..My baby is 5 weeks now, usually she takes 3-4 oz per feed. From past few days she is taking more than usual, 5-6 oz before bedtime. If I don’t give her more, she cries a lot. She does not take it in one go but within 2 hour, she would drink that quantity. I feel that she is overfed. How can I reverse this, she is exclusively taking breastmilk but from a bottle. I am also struggling to make her breastfeed.

[exhaustedua]

Thanks for the great video! I have small question:

> Every 20-30 sucks, tilt the bottle down but leave the nipple in baby's mouth
> Wait until baby sucks again, then tilt bottle back up so baby is drinking

When we tilt the bottle and baby starts suck again, don't they swallow the air in the moment until we tilt bottle back?

[نورايادموسىخضير]

Hello, I need help. My child was born prematurely and is premature. I need to stay in the hospital for 3 months. Because I suffer from difficulty in the breastfeeding process, he cannot breastfeed properly and has been feeding through a feeding tray so far. Are there any tips that will help me teach him to breastfeed?

[gabbersification]

I wish I had seen this video a few months ago. I have twins and didn't have enough milk for both at the beginning so we introduced the bottle with formula, while I also kept on breastfeeding, and it has just been a cascade of challenges associated with that and now one of the twins is refusing the breast... They're five months old now. I wish we had done it this way from the start!
Do you think we can introduce this method at this late stage and have some success?

[kennyroser]

Hi thank you for the video! I was wondering if we always need to pause for 5-10 sucks whenever the baby stops sucking? Could you clarify on that? Or do we just do that in the beginning of the feed to allow let down? Also does let down only happens in the beginning? Again thank you! 😊

[svjtalks]

Hi my baby is 4 weeks and he is exclusively on breast feed directly, but he has high raise palate for which he was choking all the time and couging which making me so stressed out, hence i started giving expressed breast milk via bottle, he taking only 20-30 ml which i feel very less, not sure if he was taking more from breastfed, how could this be solved?

[GegeP]

My baby is both formula and breastfed. I saw a lactation specialist and she stated that I could switch my baby to breastfeeding only because I have the milk supply. I don’t fully yet believe I do, since sometimes I pump for 20-25 and I get 1.5 ounces. When I saw the specialist, I had skipped 2 feedings with her so it looks like I had a lot more milk than usual, which I did tell her. The issue is, she gets cranky after drinking from me and I ended up giving her a bottle. Prior to the lactation specialist, I used to breastfed her and also gave her a 4 ounce bottle. She usually only drank 3 ounces. My question is, if their stomach may be stretch out, it is possible to correct it? She just turned 2 months.

[dejlamilliardaire]

Can I still practice it if my baby is 2months?

[evelarochelle]

paced bottle feeding helps avoid overfeeding and wasting milk.

[lindseycombs]

Hi! Thank you for this video. Is the 2-5oz of breast milk every 3 hours true for babies of all ages? Or just newborns? Information of how much my baby needs is so confusing on the internet. My baby only does on average 2.5-4oz every 3-4 hours. Very rarely she does 5. Does she need more the older she gets?

[pokoiky]

When allowing bubs to suck 10 times before lifting the bottle. Does this not risk air going in their tummy. This was very helpful though. Thankyou😊