Help - how do you choose which formula?
Hi,
I've got 4 weeks left to my DD and at the moment I'm not into the idea of breast feeding. I've thought to myself that i will give it a go, but probably only for the first couple of days.
My problem is how do you choose which formula to give to your baby? SMA, Cow & Gate or Aptamil??
Please help!
Kim
I've got 4 weeks left to my DD and at the moment I'm not into the idea of breast feeding. I've thought to myself that i will give it a go, but probably only for the first couple of days.
My problem is how do you choose which formula to give to your baby? SMA, Cow & Gate or Aptamil??
Please help!
Kim
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Aptamil is what i wish i had put my lo on instead of cow and gate. I bf for 4 days but no milk and had jaundice so went to hosp and they had cow and gate or sma so i chose cow and gate as sma is v heavy.
He has been on aptamil since 12 weeks and never looked back it has brain food in it and is good for not making baby constipated. They dont have it in hosp tho so if u wana use it take ur own tub or cartons and bottles. I hated those glass bottles they gv out and lo never drank much from them.
xx
I started using formula at 5 months. SMA made both my boys VERY sicky, Aptamil did the same, but not quite so bad. So we have used Cow & Gate ever since. So took three different milks before settling on one. I know someone who has used Hipp happily since day one, but this is not always easy to buy! (My hospital offered SMA, Cow & Gate and Aptamil)
xxx
It made her sick though so i went on to Aptamil and ahe loves it and we have had no problems since.
I breast fed for 2 weeks but was producing no milk.
Baby is 4 months now and we are just moving on to hungry milk for the night feeds.
It's trial and error really, all babies are different-my friend's son had Cow and Gate.
Also, i know this is awful but Aptamil sent me the best free gift heheheh
Hope this helps
xx
With my DS, 3 years later, I again started him on SMA as I just used what I was familiar with but he was very sicky , so i tried changing him onto Aptamil and he was fine and i kept him on this til he started cows milk.
With my new baby, who is 3weeks old,I have been giving him SMA again and he seems fine so far on this. I have found Aptamil is quite a lot more expensive than the others, which is why i tried back on SMA for my new baby. But if he gets sick with it, I wouldnt hesitate to move him onto Aptimal.
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