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Formula & Meals

How many bottles and ounces of formula is your baby having a day? How many meals is your baby having a day?

Incognito
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Please advice

My 6 months old daughter, She is least interested in milk, she loves to eat everything else than milk, i struggle alot to breastfeed or bottle feed but she hardly takes 2-3 bottles of formula 3-4 oz from 2pm-12am. Else she breastfeed. i'm not sure what to do ! is she getting enough milk?

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Pre-K

Hi Mamas, So I think all our babies are 2 now... I was born and raised in another country. I am not aware of how things are done in the US. When do we start applying for Pre-K? I know this is waaay too early. I just wanna be be prepared next year. So, if someone can tell me when we need to apply for Pre-k for Nov...

Incognito
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Milk

So my 14 month old drinks horizon organic growing years whole milk. I told his dad he needed milk and he got him the growing years reduced fat one instead. Will that affect him?

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MAM soft bottle spout

Has anyone used one of these before?? I got one as part of the MAM bottle bundle I got when baby was first born - he’s now 10 months old and I’ve found this attachment that I’ve never used! Can’t for the life of me work out what you use it for, google seems to say different things and also has bad reviews as people...

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Feeding

How many oz is everyone’s 3 month old having and how long between feeds?

Incognito
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Aptamil anti reflux formula help!

My little boy has just been diagnosed with silent reflux by the doctor and given gaviscon but also been advised to use anti reflux formula. I am being a bit thick with making it up, we were using the hot shot method with the nuby rapid cool with the kendamil formula but after reading the instructions on the formula ...

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OUNCES

How many oz is your 7 week baby taking ? Or month old baby ?

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Formula Advice Needed

So Aptamil formulas are not working for my little boy (4 weeks) and I really need reccomdations for an alternative. Aptamil original causes him to have trapped gas/wind (no matter how much I burp him), a really upset stomach and his trumps to smell really bad. Aptamil Comfort causes him to be constipated. Either o...

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Bottles?

How many bottles are your little ones having in 24hoir period?

Incognito
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Combi feeding ?

New to this, any advice?

Incognito
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Hey moms

What type of water should i use to prepare baby formula?

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Milk

How much milk is everyone’s little ones drinking? My daughter is on the aplro toddler milk due to suspected lactose intolerance and has 2-4 8oz bottles per day depending on what we are doing and then one if she wakes during the night (which is rare) Is this too much?

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How much are you babies drinking?

My little girl is 2 months old and is on 6oz of the hungry baby formula is this normal? My friends is making me feeling so guilty about it and I now feel like I’m over feeding her, but I only feed her when she’s hungry.

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CMPA - Neocate

My daughter has a suspected cows milk protein allergy. They have suggested putting her on Neocate formula - does anyone know of any negatives with this brand?

Incognito
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advice needed!

hey yall! my girl is 6 1/2 months, and we’re having some issues with feeding. she exclusively bottle feeds (formula) and drinks about 8 oz every 4 hours. i’ve been trying to get her to take full feeds but lately they have been taking 1-2 hours to get her to drink it all (and i know she can do it, as a month or so ag...

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Baby Signing

Is anyone teaching their little one how to baby sign? If so, how & when are you starting?

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Sterilising weaning equipment? Should cups, bowls or fork

Did you sterilise baby equipment like sippy cups at 6 months? Thank you for helping

Incognito
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Difficulty with bottle

Hello, my daughter is 3.5 months old and still refuses a bottle of expressed milk. She has never taken a full feed from a bottle. She sometimes flat out refuses, and sometimes chews the bottle instead of sucking. We have tried me being out the house, tried different bottles etc. She has slight tongue tie / high pall...

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Supplementing with formula

I’ve exclusively breastfed for first 5 months of my sons life. However we’d now like to try supplementing this with formula to up his weight gain a little. My question is, how do I supplement along side breast feeding as it’s hard to know how much he would need when you can’t see what he’s drinking from the breast. ...

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