My husband wishes to use formula?
Me and my husband have a 5 week old daughter. I have be breastfeeding and pumping exclusively since she was born. Recently my mother in law give my husband a can of formula, saying he might need it. I don't know why she did this because she knows I am breastfeeding. Now my husband is aphorism I should use up the can of formula and then I can return breastfeeding afterward. I don't agree. I keep telling him to any return it to his mother or give it to someone who needs it, because I don't need it. He is so persistent about using it that he even made bottles for her using the formula and yells at me when I try to breastfeed. Can someone explain why is he doing this??
WHAT?!??
He wants you to risk your milk production so you can use ONE CAN of formula?
Is the formula opened? If not, keep it! It won't move about bad!
Very strange. I think you should have him read some articles on how fragile the breastfeeding relationship is!
I wonder if she told him that he wasn't bonding because he wasn't involved. Just an FYI-back surrounded by the day when your husband was a baby, breastfeeding wasn't drastically common. For decades mothers were told that formula was the style to go and that breastfeeding was something icky. Like it was 'unclassy' or something.
Maybe he wishes to feed the baby? Ask him if he'd like it if you pumped a bottle of milk so that he could nurture the baby at bedtime. He'd probably like that.
Your husband is being a dick. Period. He should be elated you are breastfeeding and if he's not, he either is jealous that he never gets to nurture her or he is uncomfortable that his toys are not just his toys anymore. Either way, give an account him to go to hell and continue with the breastfeeding.
Doesn't he understand that breastfeeding doesn't work like that? If breastfeeding especially at solitary 5 weeks! Personally if my MIL or anyone did this and my So was being like this I would in recent times throw it away. I would also talk to the person that gave it to him... I would be particularly offended by this its almost saying that your going to fail at it. If the can isn't open take it back if it is opened bestow it to someone who will use it. or take it to a shelter.
Answers: I am currently breastfeeding as well! My hubby other wants to use formula.. I think its because he hears me complaing something like breastfeeding at times..and its a lot more work.. and he just wants to brand it eaiser for the both of us.. I dont know? But it pisses me off because I want to just breastfeed... so I know how you feel!
His mom be just recently here and my son was going through his 6wk growth spurt.. he be eating non- stop and it was stressing everyone out. My Mom in decree suggested using cereal and putting it in his bottle... I kept getting so mad at her for saying that and my hubby took her side but I refuse starting him on cereal so early.. so again I know how you feel!
However, I showed my hubby all the benefits of breast-feeding, and I showed him the American Pediatric website and how they recommend nought but breast milk. I also showed some study I found online about how all the fillers in formula may result contained by autism.. and that was enough to shut him up and support my wanting to breast-fed! So maybe try that and he will carry off your back about it!
((must be a man thing)) Source(s): Personal Experience-- as of 2 wks ago!
Throw it away. Just pour it down the sink. Tell him how sad it be that he wasted what could have been donated to a mom of multiples or a woman whose child couldn't breastfeed.
Your MIL is feed him crap and causing trouble in your marriage. You enjoy a lot more problems to deal with than formula, believe me. You stipulation to have a talk with him almost her 'advice'. It is VERY common for in-laws to sabotage breastfeeding moms. Heck, their own mothers do it.
My guess is that his mother told him something negative about breastfeeding that he is buying into, similar to he can't bond with the baby!! I would wash the formula down the sink!! If your child is thriving on breast feed I would continue as you are. Try and have a serious talk almost why he thinks she needs formula! Maybe he thinks if he get the baby off your boob he can have it pay for! Make it very clear that will not be the case!!
I enjoy a simple answer for this. Average about 1 can a week @ $26.00 (sometimes more depending on if the baby is going through a growth spurt). Send him a receipt near the total amount for 52 weeks, and then give him the receipt for breastfeeding ($0.00) . He may switch his mind! :-) Source(s): post partum doula
Because perchance, if your hubby is at all like mine, his mother told him that the baby wasn't getting satisfactory milk or whatever and to suppliment with formula.
So, if your hubby isn't willing to listen to you it's time to hail as up his mommy dearest and give her the earful to pass along to hubby. And if she says all right he's right, then you know where he's gotten his info from and your standing on better ground when you battle him haha.
Keep up what you're doing. The kid DOESN'T need both. If he's being really stupid about it, fix him a bottle and put some within his coffee or give it to him in his cereal if he wants somebody to use to formula.
Best of Luck and Continue Bfeeding!! !
You don't enjoy to use it and you shouldn't because he would probably mess her stomach up switching like that. Just donate the can to WIC or something like that. Tell your husband he doesn't know what he's talking give or take a few.
It's a bond between son and mother, it really doesn't have anything to do next to you. She's his mom, she raised him. so if she says you need the formula, within his mind, you must need it.
I think most men will defer to their mothers over their wives at some point in time. It's a inbred instinct.
If you use up the can instead of breastfeeding you will lose your supply and be out of breast milk (if you use the formula INSTEAD of breastfeeding). You can use the formula in addition to breastfeeding. but if things are going great, there's NO reason to introduce formula.
I would accidentally knock it stale the counter while the lid is off. That will solve that! JK!
Beyond words! Tip it down your toilet and tell him to go live near his mother! What was she thinking too? Please buy this half wit a book on babiesor something to educate the numb nut!
Tell your husband to go read some information. How stupid is he? Use a can of formula and then go subsidise to breastfeeding? It doesn't work like that.
I don't why he is pressuring you surrounded by using the formula, maybe his mother put something in his head. If it is regular babe-in-arms formula and not expired, you might want to just hold on to it for a couple months. I breast feed my child, due to the fact that breast milk is the best start you could make available to your child and it is much more nutritious than any formula in the world. Children who are breastfeed seem to be in better strength than those who are formula feed. But toward the third month, my breast milk all of the sudden dried up. The doctor said, it just something that start to many women. Even though I was very upset, I have no choice but to feed my baby formula and the cans be very expensive.
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WHAT?!??
He wants you to risk your milk production so you can use ONE CAN of formula?
Is the formula opened? If not, keep it! It won't move about bad!
Very strange. I think you should have him read some articles on how fragile the breastfeeding relationship is!
I wonder if she told him that he wasn't bonding because he wasn't involved. Just an FYI-back surrounded by the day when your husband was a baby, breastfeeding wasn't drastically common. For decades mothers were told that formula was the style to go and that breastfeeding was something icky. Like it was 'unclassy' or something.
Maybe he wishes to feed the baby? Ask him if he'd like it if you pumped a bottle of milk so that he could nurture the baby at bedtime. He'd probably like that.
Your husband is being a dick. Period. He should be elated you are breastfeeding and if he's not, he either is jealous that he never gets to nurture her or he is uncomfortable that his toys are not just his toys anymore. Either way, give an account him to go to hell and continue with the breastfeeding.
Doesn't he understand that breastfeeding doesn't work like that? If breastfeeding especially at solitary 5 weeks! Personally if my MIL or anyone did this and my So was being like this I would in recent times throw it away. I would also talk to the person that gave it to him... I would be particularly offended by this its almost saying that your going to fail at it. If the can isn't open take it back if it is opened bestow it to someone who will use it. or take it to a shelter.
Answers: I am currently breastfeeding as well! My hubby other wants to use formula.. I think its because he hears me complaing something like breastfeeding at times..and its a lot more work.. and he just wants to brand it eaiser for the both of us.. I dont know? But it pisses me off because I want to just breastfeed... so I know how you feel!
His mom be just recently here and my son was going through his 6wk growth spurt.. he be eating non- stop and it was stressing everyone out. My Mom in decree suggested using cereal and putting it in his bottle... I kept getting so mad at her for saying that and my hubby took her side but I refuse starting him on cereal so early.. so again I know how you feel!
However, I showed my hubby all the benefits of breast-feeding, and I showed him the American Pediatric website and how they recommend nought but breast milk. I also showed some study I found online about how all the fillers in formula may result contained by autism.. and that was enough to shut him up and support my wanting to breast-fed! So maybe try that and he will carry off your back about it!
((must be a man thing)) Source(s): Personal Experience-- as of 2 wks ago!
Throw it away. Just pour it down the sink. Tell him how sad it be that he wasted what could have been donated to a mom of multiples or a woman whose child couldn't breastfeed.
Your MIL is feed him crap and causing trouble in your marriage. You enjoy a lot more problems to deal with than formula, believe me. You stipulation to have a talk with him almost her 'advice'. It is VERY common for in-laws to sabotage breastfeeding moms. Heck, their own mothers do it.
My guess is that his mother told him something negative about breastfeeding that he is buying into, similar to he can't bond with the baby!! I would wash the formula down the sink!! If your child is thriving on breast feed I would continue as you are. Try and have a serious talk almost why he thinks she needs formula! Maybe he thinks if he get the baby off your boob he can have it pay for! Make it very clear that will not be the case!!
I enjoy a simple answer for this. Average about 1 can a week @ $26.00 (sometimes more depending on if the baby is going through a growth spurt). Send him a receipt near the total amount for 52 weeks, and then give him the receipt for breastfeeding ($0.00) . He may switch his mind! :-) Source(s): post partum doula
Because perchance, if your hubby is at all like mine, his mother told him that the baby wasn't getting satisfactory milk or whatever and to suppliment with formula.
So, if your hubby isn't willing to listen to you it's time to hail as up his mommy dearest and give her the earful to pass along to hubby. And if she says all right he's right, then you know where he's gotten his info from and your standing on better ground when you battle him haha.
Keep up what you're doing. The kid DOESN'T need both. If he's being really stupid about it, fix him a bottle and put some within his coffee or give it to him in his cereal if he wants somebody to use to formula.
Best of Luck and Continue Bfeeding!! !
You don't enjoy to use it and you shouldn't because he would probably mess her stomach up switching like that. Just donate the can to WIC or something like that. Tell your husband he doesn't know what he's talking give or take a few.
It's a bond between son and mother, it really doesn't have anything to do next to you. She's his mom, she raised him. so if she says you need the formula, within his mind, you must need it.
I think most men will defer to their mothers over their wives at some point in time. It's a inbred instinct.
If you use up the can instead of breastfeeding you will lose your supply and be out of breast milk (if you use the formula INSTEAD of breastfeeding). You can use the formula in addition to breastfeeding. but if things are going great, there's NO reason to introduce formula.
I would accidentally knock it stale the counter while the lid is off. That will solve that! JK!
Beyond words! Tip it down your toilet and tell him to go live near his mother! What was she thinking too? Please buy this half wit a book on babiesor something to educate the numb nut!
Tell your husband to go read some information. How stupid is he? Use a can of formula and then go subsidise to breastfeeding? It doesn't work like that.
I don't why he is pressuring you surrounded by using the formula, maybe his mother put something in his head. If it is regular babe-in-arms formula and not expired, you might want to just hold on to it for a couple months. I breast feed my child, due to the fact that breast milk is the best start you could make available to your child and it is much more nutritious than any formula in the world. Children who are breastfeed seem to be in better strength than those who are formula feed. But toward the third month, my breast milk all of the sudden dried up. The doctor said, it just something that start to many women. Even though I was very upset, I have no choice but to feed my baby formula and the cans be very expensive.
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