breast or bottle

Emily is bottle fed.

i also bottle fed Bethany as a baby. breastfeeding just never appealed to me im ashamed to say.

Rhys is now bottle fed, i tried to breast feed and managed 2 1/2 weeks before admitting defeat, just wasn't for me. I have to say i agree with everyone who says a happy mum is a happy baby and vice versa its soo true.x

with Lucy now aged 6, she had about 6wks of breastfeeding then we started her on bottle. with Eva i was hoping to be one of these super mums who still BF 9 month down the line.... however that wasnt meant to be, Eva turned out to be a hungry baby and i was beginning to feel like daisy the cow. needless to say Eva is now on bottles full time and thriving well.

Evie's breastfed, had only planned to breastfeed until she was 6 weeks, but have got on really well with it, so am still breastfeeding. She has 1 bottle of formula just before bed, as wanted to get her used to a bottle early too, so that I know that she will take one when i decide to wean her off breastfeeding. x

Hi, I had intended to breast feed but my little boy Connor was whisked away to special care a couple of hours after he was born so I never got the chance to get started. I was asked to express so he could be tube fed which I did but as he got better and required more fluid they started cup feeding him. We tried him on the breast but his breathing issues meant he couldn't suck and breathe at the same time so he got distressed. We were told he couldn't come home until he had established feeding and put on weight so I asked them to stop the cup feeding and give it to him in a bottle - sod nipple confusion I just wanted him at home with me!. I couldn't express enough for a whole days feeds (I was knackered travelling to and from hospital and just couldn't express 6-8 times a day) I asked them to give half breast milk/half formula. I tried him at the breast again but he always got stressed and to be honest so did I! I carried on expressing as long as I could but I gave up this week.
Connor is happy and so am I and that's whats important.

Niamh's bottle fed too - she's on nutramigen at the moment as they think she's allergic to cow's milk, as my son is too... I breast-fed for 5 days, but her suck was so strong, I was in too much pain!

Emilys on cow and gate stage 1 during the day and has a bottle of cow and gate hungry milk before bed as she seems hungrier at night. With hungry milk she will sleep thru but with normal she is waking every two hours!

sophie is bottle fed. i planned to breast feed but after a long rough labour and lack of support from midwifes at the hospaital gave in and gave her the bottle. at the time i was a little upset i hadnt managed it but now she's happy and im happy thats all that matters.

Ruby is now bottle fed an is on sma gold, i managed to breast feed for 4wks but is such a little piggy that i was gettin just an hour between feeds an me & my poor 4yr old were gettin fed up. So we switched to bottle which at 1st i felt guilty about but we now have a very content little lady who since i changed her ova has slept through the night! xx

I tried to breastfeed just after Charlie was born but it seemed he wasnt getting anything and we just couldnt get our heads round it, so we decided to bottle feed and he now has 7oz bottles every 4 hours, at the minute he is on cow & gate stage 1 but thinking of moving him onto hungrier baby milk shortly

its nice to hear there is so many mums happy with there decisions to bottle feed!