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Looking for advice as I'm desperate

It's really getting to me. My daughter of 5 months has been this way for months now it's definitely not a phase. She has 5 bottles two 6 and three 5oz she will happily drink all the 6oz at bedtime but the bottle during the day is a nightmare sometimes she's barly driving 4oz she hadn't upped her oz intake as she's g...

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Using bottle within the hour fail

Only happened once or twice max but feel a bit guilty. I know when a bottle has been started it needs to be used in the hour. A couple of times I've lost track of the time and ended up giving it maybe 1hr 15 or 1hr 20. I've never gone over 2hrs but has anyone else done this?

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Formula feeding

My baby girl is now 2 weeks old, I had the health visitor in on Thursday and she told me to feed her every 3 hours timing from when she starts her feed. However it can take her sometimes 30-40 minutes to finish her bottle and then she has to be fed 2 hours later, she has had a lot of spit up and sick since I started...

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Milk

I was wondering if any one could advise me, My 8 week old is drink 5 ounces at every bottle and has started waking earlier for another feds, can I move up to 6 ounces or is that too much?

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German / Europeans…pls explain what is going on in Germany

American here, I saw on TikTok that Germanys government has collapsed?

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Descaling kettle

Formula feeding mums, what have you used to descale your kettle since feeding baby? There’s so many chemicals in descaler it feels wrong to use 🙈

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Weaning off the bottle

My daughter is 2 and will not give up her bottle. She will drink from a cup but if there’s milk in the cup she refuses it unless it’s in a bottle. What can I do to help her get off the bottle?

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Formula

My four month old has been constantly throwing up every time after feeding and no matter what I try to do to make him hold down his formula It never seems to work and I think now he’s getting constipated so I want to know from your mothers. what is a good recommended formula. Currently he is using Similac sensitive....

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To all my July mamas

How would you rank all the months of your little one so far? I would say 3 months was the best month for me. Currently 4 months and I'm finding it a bit more difficult now as my little one is starting to become more alert, gets bored easily and demands more attention. Newborn stage was ok but very repetitive and 2 m...

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Mam teats

So my little boy is 7 weeks 5 days but seems to be getting really frustrated with how slow the teat is and getting tired out from it, he’s using mam bottles size 1 teat atm, I’m not sure I can move him to a size 2 as it says that it’s for 2 months plus and he won’t be 2 months for another 8 days. Any advice would be...

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Projectile vomitting

I currently breastfeed but want to start combi feeding or maybe go exclusive formula feeding… today I gave my baby a formula bottle (Aptamil) and around 2 hours later he projectiles vommited. How do I go abouts adding formula to his diet without it upsetting his body?

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Sterilising and throwing

I started giving my little one cows milk! But I’m not sure what guidelines say about sterilising bottles after that and how long they can stay out for when touched mouth any advice x

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Giving medication to 2 month old

My baby chokes on everythng and anything I really struggle with giving him medicine whether it’s through syringe spoon on bottle, he chokes on it almost everytime and it scares me and makes me not want to give him anything, I’m not giving him big amounts I’ve tried sitting him up and then giving him it but he almost...

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Formula

My little girl is on 6 ounces now and she is 3 month and 2 weeks but I feel like she needs more, how many ounces are other babies taking?

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Dr Brown’s bottles

I purchased these having heard great things and have just tried to feed my 7 week old. She initially seemed to struggle to suck onto the teat and then when she did seemed like she was choking. I was using the level 1 teats. Has anyone got any ideas as to where I’m going wrong? Thanks.

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formula

hello moms is it okay to mix formula with fruits ? like banana or apple just for baby to accept it so its temporary

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Hates formula

I cannot get my nearly 9 month old to drink his milk, he just hates it now he’s fully established weaning! He has 1oz in the morning and 3oz at night🤦🏼‍♀️ he won’t touch it during the day. I’ve been giving it him in his breakfast but that’s still only an extra 2oz! So 6 in total. Please tell me I’m not the only one…

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Do you think women tend to overthink every detail of the newborn stage instead of just going with it or learning their babies personality?

Seems like everything has to have a reason or something has to be wrong... 🤔

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Rapid cool

Can someone explain an efficient way to use the rapid cool? Also how are you cleaning it / sterilising it?

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Topping up with formula

My baby is 16 weeks and has recently had blood in his poo and it’s quite mucussy. I’m wondering if potential allergy to dairy or something as he is also not putting on weight, he has dropped from 50th to 9th centiles. I want to top up with formula to see if this will help his weight increase alongside breast feedi...

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