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Transitioning Your Toddler from Nighttime Bottles: 3 Gentle Steps
Are you bottle-feeding your toddler and wondering how you’re ever going to get them to give it up? The widely-known recommendation is to wean them off it completely between 12-18 months, whether it’s bottles of formula,...
Lonely, but not alone: Why is no one telling the whole truth when it comes to motherhood?
Childbirth is a long celebrated life event for women. Surrounded by smiling mums, sleeping babies and helpful partners in pop culture, it can be easy to think this is what motherhood should look like all of the time. While,...
When to give water to babies
Water is not a suitable drink for babies before six months of age, even in warmer weather. Breastmilk and formula provides both their necessary food and liquids. Giving your baby water may mean they drink less milk, which can...
Introducing fresh Cows’ Milk to Toddlers
Breastmilk is recommended as the healthiest start for babies and provides the main source of nutrition for the first 12 months of life and it is recommended to continue to breastfeed with appropriate complementary foods until...
Bonding During Bottle Feeds
Making the decision to switch from breast to bottle feeding can be an emotional and difficult experience for new mums.
As well as managing the physical changes taking place, perceived external judgment and confusion over...
Mixed Feeding – Combine Breastfeeding with Bottle Feeding
There are many reasons to want to combine breastfeeding with bottle feeding. What ever choice you make, it will be the right one for you and your baby. Some women worry by mixed feeding and introducing formula or expressed...
Cluster Feeding Your Bottle Fed Baby
Most people associate ‘cluster feeding’ only with breast fed babies, but a bottle fed baby may also cluster feed, in exactly the same way a breast fed baby will. Cluster feeding is a pattern of feeding that is different...
Overfeeding a Bottle fed Baby
What is overfeeding?
Overfeeding a bottle fed baby is when your baby receives more food than needed for his/her growth and development. It’s more common in bottle fed babies because it can take less effort for an infant to...
The benefits of paced bottle feeding
Paced bottle feeding is a method that is designed to mimic the flow of milk from the breast. Whether you’re exclusively expressing, combining breast and bottle feeding, or formula feeding, you will find some surprising...
When to Replace your Bottles and Teats
Whether you’re breast or bottle feeding, a selection of baby bottles is a staple product in most households.
And while there are a multitude of high-quality bottles and teats available, it’s important to know when�...
Everything You Need to Know About Sterilising Bottles
If you're bottle feeding your baby (either formula or expressed breast milk) you will need to sterilise their bottles and teats every time you make up a feed. Up until around 12 months sterilising is required because your�...
Why Mums Bottle Feed
It is widely acknowledged that breast is best when it comes to feeding babies, but there are myriad reasons why many mothers don't breast feed. Bottle feeding is a safe and healthy option for women who choose not to breast...
How to Introduce a Bottle to your Breastfed Baby
There are many reasons a breastfeeding mum may want or need to give a bottle feed of expressed breast milk to her baby, but it is important to do this at the right time to ensure your body’s milk making cells are...
What does the “Gold” Mean in Formula?
If you have landed on this article it probably means that you’re trying to decide between a standard or “gold” infant formula for your baby. Simply, you want to know which is best for your baby.
Breastfeeding is...
How to bottle feed a baby
It is universally accepted that breastfeeding is the best option for babies. But if you’ve decided – for whatever reasons – to bottle feed your baby, then you should carry on with it and not feel guilty about your...
Bottle Feeding FAQ
It is universally accepted that breastfeeding is the best option for babies. But if you've decided - for whatever reasons - to bottle feed your baby, then you should carry on with it and not feel guilty about your.
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How to Choose the Right Baby Formula
As a result of well-meaning attempts to encourage breastfeeding, it can be difficult to know exactly where to start when you decide to introduce formula to your baby.
Take a walk down the baby aisle of any chemist or...
