expressing from birth

[ethan_ryan]

has anyone else expressed from birth, i want baby to have breast milk but dont feel i cn breast feed 100% with the amount of running about i have to do and my house being like a train station all week. is it hard work?

[B00]

Why will you be running about?

[ethan_ryan]

on a normal day i have to take my 3 and 4 year old to school/nursery which is 45 minutes away. come home go back and pick the little one up at 11 30 come home feed him, do house work etc and go back at 2 15 to get older one. we will also be having work done around the time baby is born ( we was planning on having it done but looks like it wont be ) so we will prob be staying with in laws for a few weeks too so everything will be a bit up in the air

[Mamyalynne]

Yes but you will still need the time to express and its not as if you could express a whole days worth in one go (as far as I know) and then theres all the sterilising of bottles etc, so more time used up.

[ethan_ryan]

i agree with you on that but when expresing i can do it as and when i have time to sit and do it but if baby is fed on the breast only baby decides when the time is right.

[sherrardk]

Why don't you see how it goes breast feeding the new baby - as Mamyalynne says you will still have to sterilise the bottles, and find the time to express, etc. I managed to breast feed twins, take my 7 year back and fore to school, take my 4 year to nursery every morning and pick him at lunchtime and look after my 2 year old (OK - I maybe over did it a bit as I got Glandular Fever when they were 3 months old!). I'm sure everything will work out ok whatever you decide to do. Good luck.

[boilerinstaller]

Quite a lot of expressing info on this site :
http://www.aventelectricbreastpump.co.uk/

[smartie733]

i found expressing really hard to start with you hav to seperate the morning milk and night milk so it will depend when you want to give it to the baby. Since my son was two week old i just gave him a bottle of formula at night and one in the morning and breast fed the rest of the time. I found having to feed every two hours really hard. my son is now 12 weeks and does not feed as often so its easier.