best formula and bottles incase I cant breastfeed
Hello,
I am planning on breast feeding but a friend has suggested I get a couple of the little cartons of ready made formula and a few bottles incase I cant do it in the middle of the night so I have something in to feed the baby with and Paul doesnt have to rush out in a blind panic to find something!
Just wondering if you have any reccommendations. What are the differences between cow and gate, amptamil and sma? Which are the best bottles to use?
I'm hoping I wont need it but thought it better to be safe than sorry!!
Sarah 37+3
I am planning on breast feeding but a friend has suggested I get a couple of the little cartons of ready made formula and a few bottles incase I cant do it in the middle of the night so I have something in to feed the baby with and Paul doesnt have to rush out in a blind panic to find something!
Just wondering if you have any reccommendations. What are the differences between cow and gate, amptamil and sma? Which are the best bottles to use?
I'm hoping I wont need it but thought it better to be safe than sorry!!
Sarah 37+3
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i bottle feed my dd she's 10 weeks we started off with SMA but it made her be sick after her feed's we where told to keep on with it as she was a sicky baby, i did keep her on it until 7 weeks when it got too much and we tried her on cow and gate which she is now on and is hardly ever sick on, a few other mum's i know have had the same problem with sma. All the contents are near enough the same i think it comes to personal choice.
i use avent bottle which i have had no problems with.
Not sure on bottles, I just got tommee tippee (for expressed milk) as the breast pump I got was tt. xx
I was recommended the same thing and did get in the cartons, but never had to use them for the middle of the night panic!! I think I was reassured enough knowing they were there.
Poppy has an evening bottle now and we always use Aptimal which seems the best. I started using Tommee Tippee bottles but after some windy episodes switched to Dr. Browns and they are much better!! Good luck! x x
I wouldnt listen to the militant midwives telling you not to buy any formula in, they put too much stress on new mums and sometimes breast feeding doesnt come that easy and while youre trying to make it work the baby needs something. I didn't intend to bottle feed at all but had to give her some formula on night 2 and she had a least one bottle a day even once breast feeding was more established. It just didnt come easy to us even though I really wanted to do it and was determined.
Having a small stock of fomula and bottles will ease your mind that there is something there for a hungry newborn, just in case!
I remember my health visitor asking which formula I was using and when I said apatmil they said oh good but I'm not allowed to give an opinion.
I intend on breast feeding this time but like you intend to have a few cartons in just in case!
Aptimil and Cow &Gate are made by the same company, they both say the same things on the boxes & both have the same addresses, but Aptilmil is a little more expensive. Not sure if there is a major difference between the ingredients of the 2 forumlas but i have also heard from others that their mw say Aptimil is the closest to breast milk.
Ive never used SMA purely becuase my sis, SIL (twice) & friend used it & all their babies had problems with consitipation & were taken off it.
HTH a little, it is pretty hard to know whats best, but i would just say if your baby isnt happy on a particular formula then do try something else.
Hopefully your B'feeding works out just fine & you wont need to!
Best of luck
4fab. x