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12 Mar 2024

Golden rules for successful mixed breastfeeding

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Mixed breastfeeding is a practice favored by many moms. It consists of feeding your baby breast milk and bottle milk with formula. But you should follow some golden rules.

  • You must wait six weeks before starting to feed the baby with formula milk, the time for lactation to set in.
  • You should also wait until your baby has a good sucking action, allowing him to alternate between breast and bottle feeding.
  • To stimulate lactation, it is recommended to breastfeed the baby three times every 24 hours.
  • Start by replacing an afternoon feed with a bottle, when less milk is produced.
  • Ask health professionals for advice on choosing formula milk.
  • You will then be directed to a breast milk replacement to complement breast milk.
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Jessica
16 Jul 2023

I went off her adjusted age but my girls surpassing the expectations 🥳 Today we had really thick apple sauce mixed with watermelon juice to make it a purée lol and sweet potatoes. I know I can keep making her percentiles going up if I keep breastfeeding and giving her baby food around the clock🥰

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Mikayla Emma
My baby loves watermelon juice also. We haven't started introducing any solids, it's just milk and watermelon juice right now.
16 Jul 2023

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Xena
With this I realize my children are really tall 😂
16 Jul 2023

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Valerie
19 Apr 2023

My baby is mixed with Haitian, Indian, Scottish, Irish etc. What’s yours mixed with? Just curious lol

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Mc🌈👼🏽👶🏽🍼🤰♉👶🏽🤱🏼🩵🩷
Im a mut (french,Irish, European and Germany) that I know of his dad as he says hes black Indian so native American
19 Apr 2023

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Ysa
Mexican, German /Dominican, Haitian
19 Apr 2023

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Samantha
3 Apr 2023

Does anyone know about breastfeeding? Share all the tips you know-ANYTHING! I would LOVE that! ❤️❤️ Also, if I wanted to have a mixed drink or 2,, would that go into your breast milk?? #breastfeeding #questions #tips #newbornmomma

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Xena
Alcoholic drinks does go into the breast milk, but if you go to Walmart to the baby section they have alcohol testers for your milk to test if that milk has alcohol in it or not. They say it's fine 2 hrs after drink but I'm more cautious, just pump and dump until milk is clean otherwise your supply can die. As for breastfeeding, I recommend feeding your baby til they are full, then pump after to fully empty your breasts that way your body signals to make more especially if you are having a low supply issue.
3 Apr 2023

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Kristina
15 Mar 2023

Mixed Baby’s ? My Lil love will Be Italian , Mexican & Jamaican 💕🥰🤞🏻

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Vernice
My first ( 5 year old ) & this one Thai 🇹🇭 & Ethiopian 🇪🇹
15 Mar 2023

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Hada ah
He will be Irish, Bahamian and Portuguese but 70ish % Irish.
15 Mar 2023

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Lydia Zavala
26 Feb 2023

Part of me might have to try breastfeeding again bc we can’t find the formula we get for free through WIC NO WHERE we even asked family about an hour away and they couldn’t find it there either. Formula is too damn expensive anyways but geez breastfeeding was so hard I gave up the first week. Mentally I feel like I can’t do it but want to. I have mixed emotions about it.

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Kyre
Just give it another try. That's kinda way I didn't want to do formula it's hard to find and to many issues with getting it. What was hard about breastfeeding? If you don't mind d me asking
26 Feb 2023

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Lydia Zavala
Just the fact that he wouldn’t latch so I was having to wake up and feed him and then spend some of my free time pumping and everything and it just took away from the time I had and I have trouble sleeping anyways and plus the extra stuff to clean and I got blisters during my first couple days and the constant breast milk spills and leaking breasts and everything it was just too much for me
26 Feb 2023

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Ashley
29 Sep 2022

For my breastfeeding moms ! I’m hearing mixed opinions on breast feeding & smoking occasionally. There’s no real scientific studies on the effect like it is for alcohol. I just want to make sure I don’t harm my baby. (Not talking about tobacco)

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Blocked user
All my kids are ganja babies
29 Sep 2022

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Lilly 💕😻
I heard you weren’t supposed to smoke because it’s going to be in your system so it’s going to be in the milk as well. Just to be on the safe side I wouldn’t.
29 Sep 2022

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