@lynleighs_mommy, thanks 💕

I'm doing it for a year... and cracking and bleeding is NOT normal, no matter what anyone says. find a breastfeeding counselor to assist you, I have one and we have already been talking and I haven't delivered yet. already feel so much better about it! there's so many wrong&right; ways for a baby to latch on so do some research and def see if you can find someone who studied in that area like I have. and breast is best! there are SO many nutrients that formula simply doesn't contain. good luck❤

thanks every one .. I'm only 17 so I really needed this .

get the baby food in them...feeding them at the beginning is just as time consuming. as what i was doing...so prepare for that lol.....and get ur eldest to helo out only way to keep house happy is to keep eldest occupied and feeling like ur a team

but when baby turns six months u can start switching ounce by ounce with water....until baby only drinks a bottle of water. its not good for their teeth.

but i was a stahm...by four months i was working selling avon and still managed for two more months but it was exhausting so i switched fully to formula and regular foods. he was weaned from bottle when one and half ...the night time bottles sucks.

my feedings were almost an 45 minutes....every hour or two. so it gets easier if u got more breastmilk. but for me it was very time involved.

i always fed from both breast then gave formula after.

I breastfed for 15 months. The beginning is hard but it's worth it. You're going to be feeding your child every few hours no matter what. In my opinion it's easier to breastfeed because you don't have to make bottles, or clean them, you just take out your breast and baby latches on. The soreness in your nipples will go away after a couple weeks, use some lanolin nipple cream. My daughter never got sick until she was 20 months old and I believe she is so healthy because of the breast milk she got.

no both my kids supplemented. since the beginning i tried feeding just myself but my milk supply was always low...with my daughter it didnt come in fully for a week. uggh so frustrating...but i hear there are stuff to help this i was not aware of it back then

the reasons for NOT breastfeeding were pretty lame. don't listen to those people. do your own research

yeah, a year. I don't think I'm going to put my baby in day care that early.

@mahaylasmomma, yes my mom breast fed to and so did my aunt .

@yummycake, so ? your baby didn't throw up because of the two different milks because you didn't have enough ?

yes the experience of breastfeeding is a challenge. u might be feeding every hour or less as the begining. and ur nipples will crack but maybr not bleed while they get use to being used but that is why there is nipple cream and lactation nurses to help ur baby latch right. but over all its a special very satisfying experience. when baby nurses u get the nights to run more smoothly then having to prepare formula. i never had enough milk so i had to supplement during the day but at night all i did was breastfeed. it made life easier less colic...than my eldest who didnt get more than a month of bf. so please expect it to be challenging yet very rewarding u may end up loving it.