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Hungry formula

Hello, my baby is 2 weeks old and he is guzzling every drink he has. He is currently on between 4/5 oz (I fill a 5oz but never fully finishes it) every 3.5/4 hrs. I have started to struggle with him going to sleep after a feed and burp so tonight I have bought the hungrier aptamil formula to see if there’s any chang...

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Bottle night feeds

I'm thinking of transitioning from breastfeeding to formula for night feeds. How do you manage these in the least disruptive way. Do you make a bottle or warm ready made?

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Size teat?

My little girl just turned 4 months old and I've still got her on teat 1, she seemed to start fussing on the bottle last week or two so I did change to teat 2 but she's a guzzler and she kept coughing/choking on the milk. (I pace feed also as she has reflux) so I went back to teat 1, but she's is fussing a lot still...

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Fussy on bottle

My boy is 4months old today and the past few days he’s been so fussy on his bottles after only drinking half he then starts thrashing his head side to side and trying to spit the teat out…he’s on dr browns bottle and we already moved him up to size 2 teats a month ago…any ideas?

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Kendamil formula not needed

Hi ladies! I have a basically full box of Kendamil formula that I do not need, my wee one only needed one bottle worth as my breast milk hadn’t come in yet and she’s now exclusively on breast milk so it leaves me with this basically full box of Kendamil that we don’t need. 🥰 we just want to see it get used as I…

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How many oz formula per day

Just curious to see what other babies are similar age are drinking over a 24 hour period. My LO is 5 bottles a day usually having 7oz each time she’s also two meals a day. She no longer wants any milk through the night x

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Routine

Helloooo mama’s!! Any mom already have a routine w their babies that’s function or at what stage is should be better?

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5m Bottle Refusal

My son is 5 and a half months old and has started refusing a bottle of formula. He’s been combi fed from the start taking both formula in bottles & breast. He’s started to get very upset when we offer a bottle. I don’t have much supply (hence combi feeding). Does anyone have any advice how to get him to take a bottl...

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I don’t serve milk?

Feeling slightly worried as my 15 month old stopped having milk in a bottle around 1 year and does not take more than a sip of milk in a straw or open cup. I do give yogurt and cheese or kefir through out the day. I saw a post about milk and I’m over here thinking he has about 10ml 😂 Does anyone have a clear…

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Weaning and formula

I started baby led weaning with my 6 month old and in the last few days she is taking significantly less formula. She used to drink around 25oz and now she is having maybe 15oz per day. She does have a cough and a tooth is cutting. She is doing amazing with weaning and is having 2 meals and a snack each day. She is ...

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What's your milk and feeding schedule?

Could you please share your milk and feeding schedule what it looks like? Thank you

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Cows milk

Anyone else’s baby just refusing cows milk? He will full on heave and gag. Tried adding it to formula too and he just refuses to drink it. I’ve also tried soya milk. No luck. What else can I do? I’ve seen toddler formula milk? Anyone recommend that instead?

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Arla milk

I’ve been seeing so much stuff about this arla milk/ brand and I’ve tried my best to try and keep away from it only to see a post on Facebook about aldi milk the bottom of it says arla and now I’m stressing myself that my little girls been drinking that !

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How many ml feeds? Please help!

Our newborn is 5 days old, we were told not to over feed him by midwives so gave him about 30mls then yesterday upping to about 75mls Now we are told he’s lost weight and to let him eat till he’s full He’s just has 120ml of breast milk with out telling us he’s done (he spit up a bit so we stopped, but we were to...

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Bottle sterilizer

With a bottle sterilizer can you just rinse the bottles and put it in the sterilizer and skip the wash?

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Milk

How many oz is your baby on?

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January mamas

January mamas how we doing any signs yet or early babies

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Please help me stop my 20 month old from waking at night for milk

He has two bottles every single night and will cry for it if I don’t give it. Diluting it won’t work as he’ll still have it all. H e l p.

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Pre making bottles

Looking to pre make a feed for later on today, would this method be ok? Make bottle as normal using rapid cooler and put straight in the fridge? Would be used by 6pm this evening. Heating it up by putting it in a jug of boiling water? Thanks

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Back to not wanting milk again

My LO had a really bad cold a few weeks ago which massively effected her bottle taking to the point of having very little. Once she was better it improved but has never gone back to what it was, and now we are back to her not wanting much milk again. I can hear her belly growling, will offer the bottle and she will ...

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