Convenience of Breastfeeding vs. Bottlefeeding

Ok, ok, ok, we all know that Breastfeeding is the best for the baby, nutritional/health wise.  So, forget about talking it’s health benefits.  Let’s talk about convenience!

Superficially, breastfeeding (BF) seems to be a lot more convenient: no bottle washing, no buying formula, no pump washing, no warming up milk, no need to spend 15 min. pumping then another 1-2 hours feeding, and no need to haul bottles, formula, expressed milk everywhere you go.  Baby can’t control the rate that breastmilk comes out during BF so it can take as little as 2 minute to finish a BF session.  With bottle, a baby can take as long as 1-2 hours to finish 1-2 oz of milk!  If I miss some other example, don’t worry, you can find them in most books that talks about BF.

For sure, one thing bottlefeeding beats breastfeeding: feeding the baby while riding the car!  In the U.S., by law and for safety reasons, baby has to be strapped into a carseat while the car is moving.  What happens when the baby suddenly feel hungry?  It’s more convenient to just feed the baby with a bottle than to pull to a parking lot and BF the baby.

If you don’t like heating up formula, just mix warm water with the formula powder!  My cousin taught me this.  Keep a thermist-bottle handy with warm water.  Just use those water for mixing formula then there’s no need to heat up bottles of formula.

I forgot another convenient benefit of bottlefeeding…  oh well.