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4 Practical and Logical Pros for Both Breastfeeding and Bottle Feeding
Based on my own experiences
To start, I’m not going to determine which way of feeding your baby is healthier or better. That is for you and your doctor to decide. A fed baby is a happy baby is what they say.
Instead, having now done both, I want to discuss what I found to be positive about both experiences, logistically and practically speaking. These are my reasons.
We had my first son biologically. I breastfed him for 11 months until I had to stop for medical reasons due to a brain aneurysm surgery and the medicine I would be on. He never would take a bottle for me.
Currently, we are bottle-feeding our second son with formula. We had him via adoption. We didn’t find out that we were up for consideration to be his adoptive parents until the day he was born.
He had a seven-day stay in the NICU, during which we didn’t have any rights to make medical decisions for him. He was formula-fed through a feeding tube until he learned how to use a bottle. When I started the adoption journey, I had researched relactation but, ultimately, in the end, and with the less than 24-hour notice that he would be our son, I declined to do that.
