Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Feeding

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Ranting

Feel like I need to rant! Ever since my little girl has been born my mum has constantly gone on about how easier it would be to bottle(formula feed) her. I have nothing against formula feeding as my first two were formula fed but today we went shopping and my little girls just turned 5 months old and she’s a cat nap...

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Not tracking feeds

Is anyone else not tracking feeds or giving bottles at certain times? I couldn’t tell you how much my little girl drinks on average a day, every bottle is between 5-7 ounces but that’s all I know. She’s gaining weight and is happy/healthy. I’ve seen lots of posts recently about people tracking feeds/giving feeds at ...

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Bottles 🍼

Guys how many bottles are you guys buying to begin with?

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Peri bottle?

Do you recommend them?

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Feeding

How much are your newborns eating. When I was in the hospital I was breast feeding and when I came home my supply plummited so I supplemented with formula. I started her with 2 oz on Monday but it seems every 2 days she’s able to eat more and getting way too full. When I try to not feed her as much she cries so much...

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Is 35oz a day too much?

My baby is 14 weeks old and I’ve just upped his formula to 7oz. He has a bottle every 4-5 hours depending on when he shows hunger signs so this will result in about 35oz in a 24 hour period. Is this too much? Everything I’ve read has said 32oz should be enough but he’s finishing his bottles so don’t really want to r...

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Is spit up driving anyone else crazy

A bit of backstory here, my LO he is 4.5 months now was born at 6.4 and then lost a lot of weight went down to 5.12, and all the doctors just kept telling me he is on a smaller percentile he is a small baby etc etc. I couldn't breastfeed him (no milk) so he has been exclusively formula fed for the past 4.5 months. H...

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Neocate LCP- weight gain

Hello! My 8 week old (3 weeks corrected) has been struggling to gain weight since she was discharged from her 2 week stay in NICU/SCBU. In 6 weeks of yo-yoing she has only put on 400g. She was breastfeeding and having EBM top ups at every feed, tolerating the full amount well. The outreach team and dieticians suspe...

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Bottles

I make bottles up for the day and pop them in the fridge am I ok to microwave them to take the chill off them when they are out the fridge? I heard no because of bacteria heating them up?

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Honest question

When did you feel ready to try and have baby number 2? What were your signs ? I really want to give my daughter a sibling and deep down don't want her to be an only child. The thought makes me happy but nervous mostly because of going through the newborn stage all over again.

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Combo feeding

Help me with combo feeding please... we've been having issues with soy and milk in my breastmilk... we think we narrowed it down to soy being the culprit. I'm now going to try to be soy and dairy free for the next month. Nov 4 my babe weighed 9lbs 8.5oz and today he weighed 9lbs 15oz. So our doctor is now extremely ...

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Formula fed

My daughter is almost 1 month old and has formula milk at nights (breastfed during the day). I find she's feeding almost every 3 hrs with formula milk, is this normal? I feel like I'm over feeding her! She has 120ml, I'm finding she's finishing this super quick! She would definitely drink more had i put more in the ...

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Surgery

My son is having surgery Monday in the morning and Ik they told me he can’t eat after midnight but does that count as formula as well I forgot to ask but he’s still allowed to have formula or not until after his surgery?

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Man bottles

my baby has used mam bottles since he was born never had problems until last few weeks, the tears keep leaking it's happening on 2 of his bottles now. everytime he has a bottle milk leah's from where the teatime and plastic ring meet. does anybody have any clue why this could be happening and if there's anything i c...

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Tommee tippee colic soothe

Does anyone have this? Is it any good? Can it fit pretty much any bottles in or just the tommee tippee ones?

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CMPA & breastfeeding

Anyone out there whos little one has a cows milk protein allergy? My girl is 8 weeks old and we had to take her to the GP this week for horrendous eczema that became infected and both them and my health visitor now suspect CMPA due to the quick onset of eczema all over her body, reflux and generally being unsettled ...

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Colostrum

Hey girls hope everyone’s surviving haha 😅🙃 So I’ve got a load of colostrum in my freezer that I collected and never used. But I really tried bloody hard to get that and want to use it up and just wondering how can I give it to my little boy.. can I just give him a syringe? Or put a few in a bottle? Idk 🤷‍♀️…

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MILK

What age do we stop the formula milk and can go on normal full fat milk?

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7 month daily ounces

How many ounces of formula should a 7 month old be having? Just looking for advice please!💕 My girly only does about 26-30 ounces a day but that’s with 2 hipp organic jars in between does this sound like enough milk?😭 hearing mummas that say their baby is on like 8oz bottles 5 times a day when my girl does 6-7oz 5…

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Not feeding

Baby is 2 days old and is just not interested in feeding trying to feed him every 3 hours but he’s only having half an oz to one oz only. I’ve been told he is jaundice but worried he isn’t feeding enough anyone else going through this?

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