[azariah08]

I let my hubby feed Brenna a bottle in the middle of the night BUT I still woke up and pumped. Seems kind of silly, but at that time Brenna took an hour to nurse and I could pump in 10 minutes so it did end up saving me time. Plus he got to deal with burping and getting her back to bed. We actually slept in separate rooms the first few weeks and I took the shift from 10-2 and he took the shift from 2-6 with the baby - so we each got peace in our respective rooms. Sounds not hubby and wife like, but it worked well for us at the time because she was a fussy sleeper.

Brenna started waiting later and later until she slept until 5 a.m. around a month - at that point I just woke up and fed her instead of bugging my hubby. He was back to work anyway by then.

On the whole milk thing, Brenna eats a TON each feeding (like 6 ounces when she was a month old) so I did occasionally run out on her. I supplemented with pumped milk in the fridge and immediately pumped so my body would know it needed to make more. Even though I was pumping empty which is kind of creepy. I didn't get into the trap of using formula.

When she was little, I waited about 20 minutes after I fed her and then pumped. I felt like that got me a little more milk but didn't risk running out so much.