Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Feeding

Congratulations to those who have already had their babies! My question is how much was/is your little one taking at 5 days old? Thanks

so I had my beautiful little boy on Tuesday, only 7lbs 5oz, and I feel like he is always hungry, he’s currently taking already about 80-90ml per feed and is sometimes still looking for more after he’s finished, this seems like a lot of milk for such a tiny baby who isn’t even a week old?

I don’t understand why bottles can’t just be sterilised in boiling water anymore? I’ve been using the Milton cold water but I don’t like the smell it leaves and the residue drops in the bottles. Is there a more natural way we can sterilise bottles?

Does anyone use these and have any feedback? Looking at the tommee tippee one which sounds great, but have also seen that the NHS doesn’t endorse UV sterilisers… What are you ladies doing for sterilising?

Stupid question but my mind is blank! How do you keep cool boiled water sterile? If we were to take it out with us? How long can you keep it for? For context my boy has bad constipation and we give him lactulose twice a day, but this needs to be given with cool boiled water. Of course we have the rapid cool but ...

How many ml is your baby drinking of milk a day? And how much solids/puree are they having? My son keeps refusing bottles and has no interest (he started this before weaning) but then wakes up hungry in the night! I’m worried he’s not getting enough milk! He’s having half a pouch of puree a day

Had anyone else completely stopped Milk/Bottles?? My LB stopped showing interest in his bottle at bedtime so I dropped it completely- he has never really taken to drinking milk in a normal cup so since about 14ish months we have stopped all milk/bottles & he doesnt seem phased by it & loves drinking his water! He...

Little one’s 11 months old and am wondering how other people have either already or are going to transition to cows milk. He’s currently on around 23 ounces of formula a day over 3 bottles :) x

We are listening and we don’t judge. Does any one know how the fuck can I get this off the sterilizer the dirty marks my son don’t use the sterilizer anymore because he’s turning one and I wanna clean it before I sell it in reference I do clean it every week. It’s when, I sometimes don’t put enough water in

Anyone have dr browns bottles? I’ve switched to these ones to try because of the good anti colic reviews. How do you sterilise these? I usually use a tomee tipee microwave sterilised or the Milton cold water one

Hi girls help . I am only bf and pumping - baby boy is 3 weeks old he does not seem to be getting enough as he feeds every 1-2 hrs whereas when i feed him breast and then top up 60-70 ml pumped breast milk then he will sleep for 3 hrs . I am running out of milk n not producing enough to feed him and pump for his top...

My almost 7m old is still taking 5 full milk feeds a day of 210ml, takes a little bit of food when offered at meal times but not loads. HV has told me to reduce milk intake so he will eat more? Wondered if anyone else has done this or been advised this? I thought they dropped milk in their own time once eating more....

Looking to go on holidays in June, baby will be 6 month. How does everyone sterilise there bottles? If i get an apt then j can do via microwave but if i choose hotel, how do i sterilise them then

How many ounces and how often are your babies eating? 5 months old. We recently transitioned from breast milk to formula due to slow weight gain and a decrease in my supply. My baby takes the formula fine but her schedule of eating has become so random. Sometimes she will only eat a couple ounces and sometimes she...

I saw a post on here questioning when to drop their babys bottles from 3 to 2. My little girl still has around 5/6 bottles a day (every 3 hours) as she only drinks 3-5oz. She doesn’t have big meals as she isn’t the biggest fan of solids so now I’m worried after seeing that post. Is anyone else in the same position? ...

Hi all, I am EBF my 14 week old. Today I met up with a group of mum friends and was surprised that I was the only one still EBF. Everyone else was still BF but giving formula on top and said it helps their babies sleep. Is this true? I feel like a bit of a mug that I’m the only one still EBF especially as I am up so...

Hey, so my LO is 7.5 months old and is currently having 2 meals a day and eats quite a bit of it most days but I wouldn't say I give him a huge portion. I've started to notice he's having less of his milk. He normally has 6oz, 5 times a day but sometimes he will have 3oz and I've noticed it's the one after his meal ...

How does everyone sanitize pump parts and bottles when they go away?? I dont want to bring my huge Dr brown sterilizer!

My baby has been drinking much less over the last three weeks. He is offered 5 6oz bottles and is only really having 3 or 4oz at a push! I’ve spoken to the HV and GP, neither are concerned as he’s having plenty of wet nappies but his weight gain is slow. He went off the milk before we started weaning so I know it’s ...

When did you / are you planning on dropping to 2x bottles a day? My LG is almost 10 months and eats 3 good meals a day, no issues with her appetite! She drinks 3 bottles a day too, each around 8-9oz.