How to introduce bottle to breastfed baby at 3 months

Introducing Your Breastfed Baby to Bottle-Feedings

Supplemental Bottles
In an ideal world, every nursing mother-baby pair would constantly remain in one another's presence, and no breastfed baby would ever need to take a bottle.

I had the privilege of enjoying this ideal with my fifth baby, Mark, and I can attest to its many advantages and rewards. Unrestricted and exclusive breastfeeding gives a baby the guarantee of his mother's continual presence and the instant availability of optimal nourishment and nurturing.

Breastfeeding and formula feeding schedule

It gives a woman the best chance of having a continuous abundant supply of milk and of being able to nurse her baby a year or more. Whether by necessity or personal choice, however, the reality is that most breastfed babies in the United States do take bottles from time to time.

In many cases, regular bottle-feedings of expressed milk or formula become necessary when nursing mothers daily are separated from their babies due to employment or schooling. Supplemental bottle-feedings are sometimes required for babi

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