I am doing mix feeding for my 19-day-old boy, but really concern about how to keep balance as his sister started with mix feeding and dropped bottle when she is ??months old (don't remember), and 2 of my friends' babies drop bottle when they were 2 months.
in Tracy's book, she mentions that at least one bottle a day helps with mix feeding, but in the real life (based on my and my friends' experience), for some babies, for some reasons, even though they started with mix feeding, which means they had more than one bottle a day, they still dropped bottle at certain age, how do I keep the mix feeding for my boy?
my question is: is there a guideline for mix feeding? how many bottles should I give to my boy a day? should I give him bottles at certain time of the day?
if I feed him more bottles, my milk supply will reduced, which is not what I want
if I try more breast feeding, will he eventually drop bottle at certain age?
for now, I feed my boy 8 times a day ( in average), 2 breast + 6 mix. started today, he doesn't want the bottle as he used to be. he used to want bottle so badly that he won't be contented until I give him bottle (almost every time), but I want to make sure my milk supply doesn't effected by the bottle, so I
try to feed him with both sides of breast 2 times, that works a little bit, I mean sometimes he doesn't ask for bottle after breast, but breast feeding only lasts for one hour (sometimes shorter, only 45 mins or even less),then he wakes up and wants more milk. I do believe that the more baby sucks, the more milk my body produces, but what about the bottle? more breast means less bottle, just don't know how to balance, need help and guide, thx.