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Where can I find good research on long term health impact of different...
My wife can no longer nurse our infant due to her health issues. Is there an online resource I can use to research different types/brands of infant formula? I’m looking for independent, and preferable...
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Can I give my baby a bottle of breastmilk straight from the fridge?
I’m exclusively breastfeeding my baby, and occasionally give him pumped bottles. I generally try to warm them up before giving them to him, at least to room temperature. (I was once told as a tip to...
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What is the optimal way to store and use pumped breast milk?
What’s an optimal strategy for storing pumped breast milk for using feeding “emergencies” (mom needs to leave the house for a few hours)? Ideally it would be FIFO but it seems like a waste to dump milk...
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How do we help our toddler to sleep through the night?
My 14-month old daughter is no longer breastfeeding, and sleeps happily in her bed, although it is still in our room. But she wakes up around three times at night, and as far as we can determine it’s...
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Is nipple confusion a real thing?
Our baby daughter is breast-fed, but sometimes it would be convenient to supplement with a bottle of formula (mostly so that the mother can sleep a little longer while dad takes care of it). We keep...
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8 month old won't drink anything
Our 8 month old baby girl has been exclusively breastfed until she started solids 2 months ago. Now she is happily eating pureés etc, to which we sometimes add water or juice, but she refuses all other...
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Small amounts of water mixing with breastmilk
I wash the baby bottles by hand and often let them air dry. Do I have to dry them completely before adding breast milk? I would obviously want to get all of the dish liquid out of the bottles. But I...
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How to drop the night feeding for a 3-month-old?
I am looking for some wisdom. My little one is 3 months and feeds 6 bottles a day at 150 ml. We feed her at 10 pm, 2 am and 6 am rigidly every day and the remainder during daytime when she requires....
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bottle sterilizers and their effectiveness
I have a baby on the way and I am looking into bottle sterilizers. My concern is if they are really effective at disinfecting. Some claim to disinfect in as little as 5 minutes. I am not sure that is...
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Marking silicone nipples
Our daughter has severe reflux; so much that we give her cereal in her bottle at feedings to thicken it. The thickened formula needs a slightly larger nipple opening. Nothing new there I’m sure for...
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How can I “train” my baby to drink from a feeding bottle?
I have a 9 months old. I breastfeed him from the very first moment, in my country we have a 24 weeks maternity leave. The thing is he hates the feeding bottles. I can’t leave him with anybody for...
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4 week old cries for bottle feed every 30 minutes but only takes 30ml (1oz)
Currently going through a nightmare with 4 week old, for the last 5 days she’s been stuck in a strange rhythm. She seems hungry and cries the house down, we make up a large bottle as we have been for a...
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2 week old baby has few sleeps and lots crying
My wife gave birth to our 3.7kg, 55cm son two weeks ago. We have been using formula since birth and stopped breastfeeding on the 10th day. Things have gone well until yesterday, our son has been crying...
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What to do if baby is still sucking when the bottle is finished?
My five months old daughter is normally breastfeeding. However, we are starting to bottle-feed her with milk from her mother. When breastfeeding she does fine: she eats as much as the breast can...
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How can a find a bottle/nipple that our infant will accept
How can we make our newborn accept the bottle? I know this a related question but we can’t afford to swapping and changing in Japan- they are expensive here. Our 5 month takes one mouthful of the...
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Should I wake my 8.5 month old for feeding at night?
Our little one is 8 and a half months old, has started on solids at least twice a day, and is mostly breastfed. We are also slowing converting her to formula feeds to help my wife transition back to...
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Any harm on using feeding bottles?
Here in south India, most of PDs are not suggesting the parents to take feeding bottles for their infants; the main reason is feeding bottles are made up of plastics. Though we affirmed that we’re...
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Should we let our toddler cry herself to sleep when she asks for night feeding?
Our daughter just turned 2 and it has been since 8 months since she has been weaned off breast milk. She now drinks whole milk. On some nights she sleeps through the night but on some nights she wakes...
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