Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Feeding

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.

My Lb is approaching 9 months so I am going to start offering food before milk to see how we go. We currently average 30oz a day with no overnight feeds. My LB wakes between 6-7am so I am still going to offer milk, then breakfast around 1 hour after morning milk. When it comes to lunch and say he was due a bot...

Please can someone advice a good value reasonably priced bottle steriliser. Looking to buy new for hygiene purposes. Thank you !!!

Every time I use my sterilising machine it always goes brown and I need to descale it every time I use it, the bottles then stink and I need to do it again, should I get a new machine? I put in the correct amount of water as it needs and still does it.

This has only happened since the start of the week he used to go 3/4 hours now it’s exactly every 2? 🍼🍼

How are you prepping for night feeds if you’re formula feeding? It’s a juggle trying to make a bottle at 4am as quickly as possible. I’d like to make this a bit easier for me and baby so she isn’t getting too upset waiting

Can anyone advise me on what the transition is like from having 1 child to 2? I’m due in august and I already have a 6 year old. I’m worried about it not going lie 😭

Im pumping small amounts (10-20)ml and feel the condensed water left in the pump parts are diluting my breastmilk. So I would like to dry it. But as soon as I open and take out my pump parts to dry, they are effectively no longer sterile. So what’s best to do? I guess it was if it was formula the condensed water doe...

Anyone started to wean with purees yet? As I’m so confused with why the fact some purees say 4+months on it when your not supposed to start at 6+months I may sound really stupid, hope I’m not the only one😂

Hi ladies, My daughter turned 1 in February but I have yet to transfer her to cows milk. I currently use the cow and gate stage 3 milk which is from 1 year. The reason why I haven’t changed is because I don’t understand how I am meant to give her milk if I am in the car on a journey as it can’t be refrigerated. I...

Hi everyone just got the nuby rapidcool and was wondering what is the most effective and safest method. Research says both methods are fine but when I look into the hot shot method it's hard to know if the bacteria is being killed off for a 5oz bottle (if you only do 30ml/1oz of hot shot - not sure how it works with...

I just started using Kenndimil whole milk formula, I am not producing enough breast milk anymore my baby is 8 months. I couldn't find the goat one in stores which I heard it is closer to breast milk. She is getting a mix of formula and breast milk. If someone could please help me with how much to give of each?? The...

Question for anyone who’s on aptamil I’m currently using stage one but only says up until 6 months, does this mean when she reached 6 months I would have to buy this one? Wasn’t sure what the difference is x

I have a 2 and a 3 year old. Both a pretty carful with the steps. When did you take the gates down?