You mentioned that you have a 3 month old baby girl who's been drinking breast milk, it sounds like exclusively, from a bottle. So she's still getting the benefits of breast milk, and your body is getting the benefits of nursing. They're so great for both of you. It helps to prevent infection and disease in the first year of life. It helps to protect kids down the road from things like diabetes and obesity. And it helps to protect you against things like postpartum depression and ovarian cancer down the road. So the fact that you breastfed for 3 months is great. But now it's getting a little bit old, because your baby will only drink breast milk when it's in a bottle, and she won't latch on the breast to nurse.

If you can stick with it until 6 months of life (that's about the amount of time the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends at a minimum that babies are fed, if possible), then you will have done so much good for your baby. But you already have - you've done 3 months, and you've put in a lot of work and effort, and breastfeeding is not easy. It may be a natural thing, but it certainly doesn't come naturally for many mothers, and so you've done well to get your baby this far. So if you can continue to do it, and it works well for you, then great. But if you feel like you want to start introducing formula, you can actually feed your baby both, and just pump and feed your baby a bottle of milk when it's convenient, and give your baby formula for the other feedings of the day. But you need to be consistent about the ones you choose, because once you start giving your baby bottles of formula at certain times of the day, your body will learn that it doesn't need to make milk then.

So let's say, for example, your baby normally eats around 2:00 pm. If you want to replace that feeding with formula, and you do that consistently for 2 to 5 days, your milk supply is going to dwindle in the afternoon, but that's okay if you plan on giving your baby formula during that time. A lot of moms who are struggling with supply, or with the issues of pumping, find success if they feed their baby breast milk in the morning and in the evening, but during the day, give their baby formula. So you're still giving your baby the benefits of breast milk while also providing them the nutrition that they need to grow that comes from formula. If you have more specific questions about it, or you're concerned about your baby's growth, don't hesitate to talk with your pediatrician. And if you have any other questions for me in the future, feel free to ask them on our Facebook page at [ Ссылка ], and recommend us to your friends and family too.

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