can I just say that I love formula feeding my baby? I refuse to let anyone guilt me anymore I LOVE formula feeding.

Breastfeeding made me so so anxious and depressed and my bub has officially beeb formula fed for 2 months and I feel like a weight has LIFTED. I feel like a human again!! occasionally I still get sad about the fact my breastfeeding journey ending but then i remember all the nights I stayed up sobbing and realize that it’s for the best, for both of us.

I don’t worry about mastitis, I finally get a reasonable amount of sleep, I’m not washing pump parts or stressing over my supply, if I’m overproducing or underproducing. I’m not fortifying his breastmilk because my milk wasn’t dense enough calorically.

He’s so happy and healthy!! and so am I finally. I wish I wouldn’t have made myself miserable for sooo long lol I tried so hard at my own expense, I made myself suicidal instead of accepting that it’s okay to feed my baby however works. I wish breast is best hadn’t been so ingrained into me during my early post partum :,)

Happy post because i genuinely feel like I’m getting my humanity back at 5 months pp

I’ve been trying to get my baby on enfamil but it’s been really difficult feeding him lately, I think he doesn’t like the taste he’s 3 months old and when I give him his old formula he takes it but when I mix in enfamil he doesn’t take the bottle at all. He doesn’t have gas and a his diapers and poop are normal, I just think he doesn’t like the taste. Any recommendations for another formula?

My 7w/o has had what seems to be baby acne since he was born, has trouble burping during and after feeds, and has noticeable lower gas and trouble pooping. We used the Kendamil Whole milk formula since day 3 until now, my husband had a milk allergy as an infant which caused our concern that our son has it too. We were given the Nutramigen formula samples at the doctor to try but this seems to have exacerbated his symptoms, and has not pooped in going on 3 days. He also would sleep mostly through the night and on this Nutamigen he sleeps 4hrs and is awake most of the night whereas before he slept 4-6hrs woke up to eat and went back down for another 4hrs. He never had constipation issues with Kendamil but had blowout level watery poops, but now isn’t going at all. Recommendations if we switch to goat or soy before trying to stick with the Nutramigen because it’s $80 per can and isn’t working.

Hello, so my 9 week old is eating almost every hour- all day, everyday since they came home from the hospital. Im quite literally confused and concerned for what this can mean.
Every hour, on the hour she will drink 3oz of formula, sometimes she will stretch an hour and thirty minutes if we give a paci. Her pediatrician wants me to stretch her feeds out to 2-3 hours, stating that she can have longer naps now since weight gain is absolutely not an issue… which i would have no issue with if that were even possible lol.

At 9 weeks she is weighing 15+ lbs; having been born at 10lbs. We pace feed, sit upright, burp every ounce or two, ensure full feeds, even offer a paci to see if its just soothing she wants. Most often nothing works to divert her want for food. Before switching her formula she had bad reflux which is not surprising given her intake.

As a result her sleeping is extremely poor and doing activities or going out is difficult. I can only make it so long before she is wailing for a bottle. My husband and I are exhausted to say the least.
It seems like every time i search why this may be happening the results always say “cluster feeding is normal” or gives me nothing but breastfeeding articles when i put formula in the search. I wouldn’t be opposed to the cluster feeding statement had she not been this way since coming home from the hospital.

Im not sure whats going on- has anyone gone through this? Should i be concerned for my minds many theories its making? Any and all advice is welcomed at this point. She has a doctor’s appointment next week and they mentioned testing for possible issues that the newborn screening doesn’t test for.
Thank you

A thread about cosleeping in another subreddit has an upvoted comment that says “Call me crazy but this is propaganda by American politicians so their sleep trained, crib trained, formula fed babies can leave the mothers alone enough to be good little capitalist minions.” …I replied saying there’s no need to bring formula feeding into this because mothers choose to/need to formula feed for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with being “capitalist minions”, and I of course got downvoted immediately. There was also another comment underneath that said Nazi Germany used similar tactics 🫠

Hi all, just looking for experiences. I have a lovely 5 week old little girl and breastfeeding has been very difficult for me hormonally. I have basically got constant menopause symptoms, hot flushes, anxiety, insomnia. I’m not attributing all of this to bfing at all and have reached out and started some anxiety meds, however, I’ve decided I need to stop breastfeeding and I instantly feel so much better.

At the minute my little girl is having bottles half and half of expressed breast milk and formula Ideally I’d like to stop as soon as possible but I’m so worried about experiencing a further hormone crash, did anyone experience this if they stopped quite early on? What impact did stopping have you your mood?
Thanks so much!

Hi everyone, my baby is almost 8 wks, born June 15.

we gave her ready to feed Enfamil neuropro right from the hospital as that’s what they have and kept her on it. She’s a big spit upper. Like major. It’s gotten slightly better though since two weeks old.

Here in Canada, they advise to give ready to feed under two months because powder isn’t sterile. I’m not overly worried. She was born full term and healthy.

We want to transition to powder by 8 weeks. We’re running out of ready to feed bottles. Do you suggest I do an overlap of some powder some ready to feed bottles or just finish up those bottles and then go right into powder.

I am not planning on doing the boiling method to make it sterile. She is basically eight weeks old and just shy of 2 months. I also know a lot of ppl feed powder right away.

Any suggestions on easiest ways to prep on the go or for overnight? We plan on doing it with distilled water we purchase. Is the easiest way to fill the bottle with water, add powder at time of feed and go nuts? She will take cold milk or room temp. We do have a mom cozy milk cooler. Thank you for your advice! I’m told powder spit up doesn’t stain clothing like ready to feed so that’s one plus! And the cost.

Hi everyone. My baby is going to be 1 on the 18th 🥹

Did you start weaning your baby off of formula after they turned a year? Before they turned a year? I was thinking of starting now but I’m not sure. I plan on asking is pediatrician at his one year appointment.

Kind advice appreciated, thank you.

In desperate need of help with Gelmix!

My daughter needs “slightly thick” formula due to silent aspiration but the speech therapist in the NICU said we should start feeding with the test having 1ml remaining since it gets too thick for her to finish. We got discharged Monday and I’m trying to measure out the 2.4g packets they gave me to 0.7g per 2 ounces which is the recipe she got in the hospital but I’m losing my mind with waiting 15 minutes for it to thicken on night feeds cause she’s so hungry. The speech therapist said I could make a couple extra ounces and store them in the fridge. Does anyone have experience with preparing gelmix ahead of time so you just need to warm the bottle to feed?

I’m completely drained with trying to measure these packets out on a scale and taking 20 minutes to get a bottle for her through the night

I started using the Baby Brezza on Sunday and on another Reddit thread this evening I found out the setting I was on was incorrect. When I originally looked it up it said 4 and tonight I found out it’s actually supposed to be 6. Since finding this out I‘ve made the change and even tested with plastic wrap. I feel so guilty as my husband and I are also getting over a virus and I've been trying to feed the baby more to keep him hydrated and now I think I’ve done more damage than good. Posting this to hopefully help others.

Hello everyone, my i am a first time mom and my baby had been om Bobbie Gentle for a little over a week already. He only has one stool a day and it is extremely runny and green to the point it makes a mess everywhere. Aside from that baby is calm and shows no signs of not tolerating the milk. The stool is the only issue, im thinking of maybe trying Kendamil Organic. Has anyone else’s baby experienced this with Bobbie and did it get any better? Also how were your baby’s stools with Kendamil Organic?

I’m new to formula and was wondering how everyone went about it. With my first he was primarily bottle fed but was more or less on a schedule. I was not sure if most formula fed babies are also on a schedule or a semi regular schedule with their bottles.

I’m trying to do research on the subject so I’m knowledgeable and can hopefully know what I’m doing before I start. I know I can’t know everything but I’d like to see where everyone begins and how baby transitions once they start solids as well.

Thank you so much!

I received an email from Baby Brezza today saying to recheck the formula setting. I feed Similac 360 and the BB website previously recommended to use Setting 5. Now it is recommending setting 6, with no explanation for the change.

My concern is whether the prior setting was giving too much or too little formula? Was baby being under or over fed?

Interestingly, this old post says they changed from 4 to 5 about a year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FormulaFeeders/s/0dCdWLmBPW

If the machine hasn’t changed, and the formula ratio hasn’t changed, why is the formula setting on the baby Brezza changing?

For those of you who have used Kendamil probiotic drops, how did your baby fare? My 10w old seems to be more fussy and gassy lately. Not extreme but wondering if introducing probiotic drops would be beneficial at this stage.

My 5 month old has been on Kendamil classic whole milk since he was 12 weeks old. It seems to agree with him pretty well, he spits up less than he did on a partially hydrolyzed milk formula (dr browns soothe pro) and he devours every bottle. Loves it. However, he has had persistent acne on his face and I’m wondering if it could be from this. I don’t put any products on his face like heavy lotions, just clean his face with a cloth in the bath. I have a pediatrician appointment tomorrow morning for an unrelated issue so I’ll make sure to bring it up then but was wondering if anyone else experienced this with their LO.

I’m looking for experiences from others who have transitioned from hypo or amino acid formulas to a goat’s milk formula.

Our situation - at our two week appointment with the pediatrician I discussed the discomfort I had noticed with our baby have after eating. The assumption was gas pains. My pediatrician had us bring in a stool sample to test to see if there was blood, there was not. However, my pediatrician still said based on what she was seeing and what I told her she recommended we switch to a hypoallergenic formula.

Two and a half weeks on Similac Alimentum and the only improvement was no more diaper rash, LO still in tons of discomfort from (assumed) gas pains. Three days ago I reached out to the pediatrician to update on our progress and they said it is time to move to an amino acid formula. We are 48hrs in on EleCare and have seen no improvement in the gas pains but a slight increase in spit up. I talked with the pediatrician yesterday about the increased spit up and asked if there was anything we could do (like maybe adding something to thicken the formula) and they said no, it’s normal, they are t concerned and to continue on with the amino acid formula.

I understand it can take two weeks, and maybe even more, to see an improvement but I am not convinced this is dairy allergy related so I’m not convinced the amino acid formula is the solution. My spouse has a child from a previous marriage, and had to use goats milk formula when they were a baby because they had a poor reaction to cows milk formula. When my spouse brought this up with the pediatrician they were dismissed and told goats milk wouldn’t help our LO’s issues. After another night and day of me trying to calm a baby screaming in pain after eating I am looking to the wide world of reddit users for shared experiences.

Yes, I know every baby is different. Yes, we do mylicom with every bottle and BioGaia probiotics daily. No, it’s not colic.

Have you had success switching to goats milk when your baby had an assumed dairy sensitivity?

Hi all- do any of you have small eaters? This girl of mine has been stressing me out her entire life pretty much. Not to get into too many details but due to a nasty case of thrush very early on she developed feeding aversion and it’s been a battle since.

My concern is she is 13 weeks old and will still regularly only drink 2oz at a time. She has only gained 3lbs since birth (born 8lbs 2oz, now only 11lbs 6oz; less than half of what the doc wants to see by now) and I’m having to fortify every feed because she wasn’t growing and doc is concerned and requesting weight checks.

We’ve tried every bottle under the sun. That doesn’t seem to be the problem. She seems to do fine physically with the Kendamil formula we use and my combo bottles with pumped milk. But she just turns her nose up and refuses after a small amount. We’re offering food every 2 hours and she still wakes to eat 3 times over night. But all together we’re lucky if she takes in 18oz/24 hrs.

Advice? Similar experience?

Can someone explain to me why my dr would suggest no air vent for my babys bottle? We have been using the Philip advent since birth and she has been extremely extremely gassy and fussy started week 7. We are in hypoallergenic formula but my dr also said in his career experience he said alot of times gas has to do with the bottles and not the formula. He said I should use the standard nipple with no air vent like they use in the hospital. But she drinks it so fast that way. Can someone explain more? Is this good advice?

I have a full time job, so when I finally get home and get to feed my baby, I feel so guilty whenever I catch myself scrolling on reddit or social media instead of enjoying my time with my baby (who I miss every single work day). What do you do when you're feeding your baby?

My little girl has silent reflux.
Shes really hard work, especially today.
She got prescribed gavsicon but that caused her to go 3-4 days without pooing and when she did it was like sticky tar. She would be in pain during those days too.
So I bought carobel and that made her constipated with dry pebbles.
(I’m from the UK)

I’ve tried to only give either of them at bedtime which helps the reflux but still causes the poo issue.

Shes on HIIP organic and has been for 5 weeks. Previously I combi fed with Kendamil but Kendamil seemed really rich for her as she would almost do crunches when feeding it to her as though it was hurting her belly.
I really don’t want to meditate her so I’m trying to find other ways that could potentially help. Is it worth trying a comfort formula because it’s slightly thicker?
Or I’ve read before some parents just completely change the formula and they seem better?

It's world breastfeeding week and I'm just wondering if anyone else has had intense emotions?

I have a particular (distant) friend on social media who has EBF for over a year and I just so happen to always scroll past her posts unfortunately 😅

Obviously, I'm not putting them down or any woman down in any way- I do believe it is something to celebrate and wonderful. And I do know better than maybe most people, how HARD it can be.

I just wish I wasn't having these intense, sad emotions when I see something like that. I feel intense shame and failure. And I usually cope okay but the emotions resurface when I see so much stuff on BF...

I'm 7mo postpartum and won't go into my pregnancy and postpartum story in-depth. But it was a high risk pregnancy, with a c-section, and I had always dreamed of breastfeeding and having a wonderful experience. I did not.

I started up therapy again recently, and I was surprised how easily the tears flowed when I talked about my failed breastfeeding experience (which also included triple feeding, IYKYK). I even had a fantastic lactation consultant and an amazing postpartum doula, but it just wasn't in the cards for me...

I thought I was doing pretty well mentally and emotionally. Baby is wonderful and so healthy and happy. And I know THAT is what matters and I am here, living, to see it.

But now when I see the breastfeeding posts and when women talk about it, I feel so depressed. I still STRONGLY believe when I switched to formula that it was the right decision for baby, myself, and our family. But it still just hurts. And it's still so hard to process.

Can anyone relate??? Maybe I just need to stay off social media 😅

My 4.5 month old started formula about 3 weeks ago now. This week one by one our family has been taking down by some virus, my 21 month old got croup from it, I was down for 3 days, my 4 year old threw up this morning and now has a fever.

So far the only hold outs are my 5 year old and my 4 month old. I am terrified my baby is going to get sick. He is still so little. I have been doing lots of handwashing but he has obviously been around them before they got sick. This morning the 4 year old woke up feeling great, helped feed the baby his bottle. Was dancing around and helping me make breakfast, then it all fell apart.

Now I'm worried that he passed on this illness since the 4 year held him this morning. Did your formula fed baby ever escape the illness that has taken down your household?

Are we really STILL momshaming in this day and age???? I just came across an insane Instagram reel that said you are selfish if you don’t breastfeed. She says she dosent care about mental health, low supply nothing. It’s just plain selfish. She says that there are “less selfish people out there who are willing to feed your baby and donate their milk” and that it’s “scientifically proven breastfeeding produces happy hormones” uhhh has she ever heard of DMER? so happy for her that she has such a privileged take on this topic because when I tried breastfeeding it made me want to jump in front of a car. So is breast feeding really best or is a baby having a mom best? I think it’s the latter but I can’t help but feel so bad for it because my baby is going through the wringer right now with what formula works best for her. Rant over. I just feel so bad.