Question on breastfeeding?

[Guest guest]

Hello to all! I hope that everyone is great. I just have a question for

mothers that have/are breastfeeding.

This is my second pregnancy and I would like to try breastfeeding & formula

on this baby. I would like to try and see if I can breatstfeed. If I can, then

I would like to breastfeed while we are at home and if we go somewhere then

maybe have powered formula to mix up when baby needs to eat.

Has anyone did/doing this? You can part-time breastfeed and part-time formula

right? I know that you can fulltime breastfeed, but you have to pump into

bottles, how long is that formula good for? I also know that you can pump into

the little bags and freeze them until you need them. How long do you have to use

the ones in the freezer? I just don't want to spend alot of money on the

little bags to put breast milk in. Considering breastfeeding is all new to me.

Any

suggestions, answers, anything would be greatly helpful, useful and

appreciated a lot!

D.

Texas

Gastric Bypass 4-18-03

-103 pounds

Pregnant with 2nd child(16 weeks)

[Guest guest]

,

Currently I am both bfing and formula feeding Hannah and it is working for us

though I am trying to work towards getting her off formula totally. I would

highly suggest you check out the La Leche League website as well as website

called mom. Both these websites will answer alot of your questions, but I

will tell you what I have learned. Pumped breastmilk can stay at room

temperature up to 10 hours. If you put pumped breastmilk into the fridge it can

stay anywhere from 3 to 8 days. If you freeze breastmilk, whether in bottles or

bags it can stay good anywhere from 6 months to a year. Any time you refridge

or freeze your breastmilk you always want to put it in the back of the

fridge/freezer because the temperature changes too much if it is kept in the

door. Also, a good thing to do if you are working hard to freeze breastmilk

because you are going back to work and you want bb to get only mother's milk

(mm), always keep a couple of gallon water jugs frozen just in case your freezer

breaks, then you can keep your mm surrounded with the frozen water jugs to keep

it cold enough until your freezer is fixed. Losing all that mm you worked so

hard for will just kill ya! Anyway, I hope this helps. Please check out those

sites, I learned alot from them. Good luck!

Axelrod

Question on breastfeeding?

Hello to all! I hope that everyone is great. I just have a question for

mothers that have/are breastfeeding.

This is my second pregnancy and I would like to try breastfeeding & formula

on this baby. I would like to try and see if I can breatstfeed. If I can, then

I would like to breastfeed while we are at home and if we go somewhere then

maybe have powered formula to mix up when baby needs to eat.

Has anyone did/doing this? You can part-time breastfeed and part-time formula

right? I know that you can fulltime breastfeed, but you have to pump into

bottles, how long is that formula good for? I also know that you can pump into

the little bags and freeze them until you need them. How long do you have to

use

the ones in the freezer? I just don't want to spend alot of money on the

little bags to put breast milk in. Considering breastfeeding is all new to me.

Any

suggestions, answers, anything would be greatly helpful, useful and

appreciated a lot!

D.

Texas

Gastric Bypass 4-18-03

-103 pounds

Pregnant with 2nd child(16 weeks)

[Guest guest]

,

Currently I am both bfing and formula feeding Hannah and it is working for us

though I am trying to work towards getting her off formula totally. I would

highly suggest you check out the La Leche League website as well as website

called mom. Both these websites will answer alot of your questions, but I

will tell you what I have learned. Pumped breastmilk can stay at room

temperature up to 10 hours. If you put pumped breastmilk into the fridge it can

stay anywhere from 3 to 8 days. If you freeze breastmilk, whether in bottles or

bags it can stay good anywhere from 6 months to a year. Any time you refridge

or freeze your breastmilk you always want to put it in the back of the

fridge/freezer because the temperature changes too much if it is kept in the

door. Also, a good thing to do if you are working hard to freeze breastmilk

because you are going back to work and you want bb to get only mother's milk

(mm), always keep a couple of gallon water jugs frozen just in case your freezer

breaks, then you can keep your mm surrounded with the frozen water jugs to keep

it cold enough until your freezer is fixed. Losing all that mm you worked so

hard for will just kill ya! Anyway, I hope this helps. Please check out those

sites, I learned alot from them. Good luck!

Axelrod

Question on breastfeeding?

Hello to all! I hope that everyone is great. I just have a question for

mothers that have/are breastfeeding.

This is my second pregnancy and I would like to try breastfeeding & formula

on this baby. I would like to try and see if I can breatstfeed. If I can, then

I would like to breastfeed while we are at home and if we go somewhere then

maybe have powered formula to mix up when baby needs to eat.

Has anyone did/doing this? You can part-time breastfeed and part-time formula

right? I know that you can fulltime breastfeed, but you have to pump into

bottles, how long is that formula good for? I also know that you can pump into

the little bags and freeze them until you need them. How long do you have to

use

the ones in the freezer? I just don't want to spend alot of money on the

little bags to put breast milk in. Considering breastfeeding is all new to me.

Any

suggestions, answers, anything would be greatly helpful, useful and

appreciated a lot!

D.

Texas

Gastric Bypass 4-18-03

-103 pounds

Pregnant with 2nd child(16 weeks)