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L in Bottle feeding

Sterilising bottles and pump parts

How often should I be sterilising my baby’s bottles and pumping parts? I normally breastfeed and pump twice a day, give a bottle 1-2 times a day. I wash the bottles immediately but what about sterilisation?

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Combo feeding

I’d there a certain formula which works with your breast feed baby?40+6 planning to combine feed but focused mostly on breast just formula for my partners shift of feeding or grandparents babysitting ect I am also planning to pump but would prefer to not do it constantly/ do it minimally xx

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J in Formula

How can husband help with feeding?

I am EBF for seven weeks and probably getting 3 to 5 hours of sleep every 24 hours. My body is exhausted. I have some pumped (haakaa) milk in the freezer, and I’m too tired to figure out how to use my spectra pump. I’m too tired to figure out how to combo feed with formula, too. I’m open to both. My husband is wi...

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Is my milk supply tanking?

My baby is 9, almost 10 weeks and as of the last couple days she’s getting fussy on the breast after 4-5 minutes. My supply was great - she’d comfortably feed for 15-20 minutes and be satisfied! I could also here her suckle, and Gulp, suckle and gulp but the last few days she’ll suckle suckle suckle And I could he...

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Pumping and refrigerating pump parts!

I hate pumping! The washing and sterilizing puts me off so much but my milk supply has recently tanked 🥲 so I need to. Is putting your pump parts in the fridge okay? NHS advises against it 🙃 I was wondering how many of ya’ll put your pump parts in the fridge between pumps? If you do this, can you please advise ho...

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