Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Feeding

My baby is almost 7.5 months old and has 2x meals a day. We use the Ellas kitchen pouches. Sometimes she'll have some snacks during the day but nothing big. We've just dropped 1 bottle so she has 3x8oz Today she's only had 19oz of formula (550ml) Her schedule is Bottle-7 Breakfast -10 Lunch - 12 Bottle - 3 Bottl...

Hi Fellow Mums Out of interest how much milk/ how many bottles are your babies having at 11 months old? Mine still has 4. I make them 7 oz (210ml) albeit that she at times only has 3-4 oz during the day. However one of her bottles is at night anywhere from 12pm to 2am? She currently has; 7am wake, 7 oz (has 3...

Some days the bottles are better than others so wondering if need to change from a slow teat to faster flow

Does anyone else have a lazy boy? Wont attempt to feed himself with the bottle, doesnt want to hold the beaker, wont attempt to feed himself with a spoon. How do I encourage him? I know he can pick up the beaker and drink from it as I have seen him do it once when I put it on the floor in front of him. But most of t...

How do you know when to up your baby’ teat size? And how would you know they are comfortable with the size?

How much formula are your babies having when weaning? Worried I'm overfeeding.

For those who are formula feeding-have any of you dropped baby down to 2 Bottles per day? My little one will be 9 months old next week. Middle of the day bottle rapidly dropped over the course of a few days from 7oz to 4oz and then over the last day or two he’s not even really been taking 3oz. Today I’ve tried him w...

Hi, ive seen quite a few comments on here discussing how when a baby has breastmilk from a bottle, they should never have more than 4/5oz? This has confused me massively as my baby struggled gaining weight after birth (now 2.5m) and I was told to up his oz amount when he was taking 4oz. When the health visitor last ...

Gone dairy free for CMPI baby and wondering if anyone can recommend a vegan cheese 😅 I’m lost without my cheese 🧀 Tried violife and it isn’t terrible but the extreme fake cheese smell puts me off a bit!

Has anyone changed their babies milk to lactose free without being instructed by a GP? I’ve been numerous times and I keep being told he has reflux but no reflux medication they are prescribing is helping and I am honestly loosing the will to live seeing my baby suffering every day! I have already tried 3 differen...

My boy is almost 4 months and I am exclusively pumping. He drinks around 1100ml of breast milk a day, is this too much? Everything is see says 750-1000 is normal but I only feed when he's hungry, it seems inhumane to try and cut it down.

My little premmie has just been discharged finally and she's been prescribed nutriprem 2 formula due to an 11% weight loss at her first weigh . Does anyone else have this prescribed - wondering if anyone has had issues with the pharmacy to sourcing it and how long it takes usually .

Yesterday my baby had 5 9oz bottles which worked out 45/50oz as well as some water… is this normal? I don’t wanna over feed but she was 9lb 3oz born at birth and roughly weighs like 2 stone or more or something now so not sure if it’s a growth spurt she’s also got 2 bottom teeth and cutting 2 top teeth… could someon...

Has the kendamil quality changed at all? (Infant formula the pink tin) I've bought 2 new tins that doesn't say "made in Lake District" it says "made with love" and baby has all of a sudden been spitting up after every feed and from drinking 120ml is rejecting the bottle and doing only 60ml, throwing himself back, m...

Hey - any mums who used the ‘ready to drink’ milk bottles for when you were in hospital, did you just feed as is or did you bring a bottle heater in to make the milk warm? Ive got the ready to drink bottles and Ive got the Nuk bottle/food warmer but trying not to bring too much into hospital so wondering if you thi...

How have you managed night feeds with your baby so that they don't wake up too much. My supply is dropping and my LO still wakes up about 3/4 times in the night and nurses back to sleep. I'm worried that going to sort a bottle when he wakes up will take too long and bring him all the way out of sleep so that he won...

Hey, Quick question for you ladies , if I’m in a different area from my town that I live in and my normal chemist/ doctors ain’t near by, is it possible to ring up the chemist your by for prescribed milk from a different chemist ? Only asking because I’m at my mums and stuck here possibly for another day and I’m s...

We’re in the US.

She's 13 months and still refuses to hold her own bottle. If you give her a sippy cup, she will hold it but when it comes to a baby bottle, NOPE. Anyone else experience this? Will she eventually hold her own?

This is probably a silly question but imma bit confused 😂 My little girl has started teething I’m pretty sure, we have mitts but how do I wash and sterilise them safely! She’s 3 & a half months old so how do they need to be sterilised & often and how do I dry them too make sure they still okay too use? Thank you all