Almost everytime I hear this from new moms - I express my milk to let dh feed the baby so that he can bond with the baby.

Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You do not need to feed the baby to bond with the baby! Yes, you read that correctly. Your dh or mother or sister or cousin....can bond with the baby some other way. Nursing your baby should be your job. Especially in the early days when the baby and your body are getting acquainted with each other.

Don't complicate matters by expressing your milk just so that someone else can bond with the baby. There are legitimate reasons to express milk in the early days but definitely letting dad bond with the baby is not one of them in my books!

Dad can bathe the baby, change the baby, burp the baby or rock the baby to sleep. And these are great things for dads to be doing so that all mom needs to think of is nurse the baby and rest!

Leave the baby and the mom alone to nurse and enjoy each other. Not everything has to be done equally by both parents, ok?

I get very worked up when I hear that a new mom has to go through the hassle of sterilising and expressing her milk (and getting distressed at the same time coz pumping in the early days yield little milk) just so that dad/grandma can bond with the baby. Get creative lah!

And that is my very opinionated view!

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