Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Feeding

My little one is turning 13weeks on Monday and just wondered when’s a good time to progress to the next teat size! She’s happy during feeds and doesn’t get frustrated so mummy instinct is to leave it a bit longer! What did you mummas do?

How do I go about sterilising the nuby rapid cool and how frequently do I need to do so? For reference, I have a UV steriliser. I’m not sure if the top digital bit can be sterilised or soaked in sudsy water. I will also be using a thermos flask for the hot shot method. Apart from washing it in warm soapy water, rin...

How many ml are you feeding your 4weeks? Im seeing online 150 and 5 feeds? 😮

Hi September mums! Hope you’re all doing well Just wondering for those formula feeding (NO JUDGEMENTS ON THIS POST PLEASE) - my son was previously breast fed. How often are you going between feeds? I’m trying to offer every 2.5-3 hours but my baby is refusing until 4 hours have passed.

Really struggling to get wind up from my 8 day old LB. He’s using tommee tippee bottles anti colic. Any recommendations to what bottle to try next

Anyone who has used a prep machine, what did you do with it when you no longer used it. Our girl only has 2 bottles a day now so we're just using the rapid cool for them. Just not sure what to do with the prep machine now.

My son is 17 months now and he’s still having 2 bottles of cows milk in the day (2x7oz). 1 after lunch and 1 before bed. Iv tried all sorts of things like giving his bed time bottle into a different cup but he just doesn’t seem to go off unless he has it in his bottle. Does anyone have any suggestions they could ma...

Any recommendations for bottles? We had Tommee tippee but they all seem to have gone missing and we’re down to 2! What is everyone giving their night time milk in? Are we heating it up? Thanks x

Hello, my baby is at 4 oz every 3 hrs. Today I noticed he might want 4.5 oz soon since he’s starting to get hungry sooner. How many ounces is everybody else’s baby at? I’m just curious to know if they are all at about the same amount?

I was given a Nuby Rapid Cool, but instructions say to sterilise to just use hot boiling water and soap. But I'm questioning whether (is that it)?! Help!🙈

So little Aspyn turned 1 last week and switching to whole milk is not working for us🥲 anyone got any tips and tricks? I started off just adding one ounce and then two ounces to her formula and she refuses to drink the bottle

What size teat is your 5 month old using? I ebf. How on earth do I know which size to offer first if introducing formula without testing a whole bunch of sizes and possibly wasting money on teats? 🙃

Should we be feeding on demand if exclusively formula feeding? LO is 3 days old.

My July baby is nearly 8 months and is still on 6 bottles sometimes even 7. He drinks 6oz every time. I've tried to increase it but he just won't drink any more than that. He's also having 2 meals a day breakfast and dinner. I want to start decreasing his bottles so he drinks more in one go but I really don't know h...

Looking for some advice if anyone has any please 😟 I'm trying to switch baby to formula after 5 and a half months of exclusively pumping. We have started with 1 bottle of formula a day but my baby HATES it. She screams, hits the bottle away, spits it out. When I give her BM she guzzles it immediately so I know she…

How to introduce bottle at 4 months. It’s so hard. My daughter is refusing to bottle. Any tips and tricks, please?

I’ve recently seen a post that lots of other babies are having 3-4 bottles per day….Why is my child having 3 meals a day and big meals (today for example breakfast = porridge, lunch vegetable curry and yoghurt and dinner chicken roast dinner and rice pudding) and still having 5 bottles 😂 at 5am she had 6oz, 9:45am…

Just thought I'd put a quick post here letting you all know that Aptamil formula is £9 in Lidl so a lot cheaper than in other supermarkets

My little ones 10 weeks tuesday and she is on size 0 teat on mam bottle but drinks slow and then gets tired and doesnt finish her bottle .ive tried her on size 1 but she js gags her milks coming out from side of her mouth and i feel she cant breath because milks coming out to fast for her .. anh tips

I’ve made the bottle as instructed… but there’s bits of residue left around the bottle has anyone else found this to be grainy? And is that ok? He’s just had his first bottle of it and was really sick is this normal? I suppose his little tummy has to get used to it?