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How to sterilise bottles in Paris?

We’re going away in June when baby is 4 months old and struggling to find out information on if it’s safe to use the water in Paris to sterilise bottles. We’ve been to Paris before and there were signs everywhere to not drink the water so would it be unsafe to use the water? Thinking of taking the Milton Cold Water ...

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Newborn Boundaries

What boundaries are you setting in place once baby is born?

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Formula feeding

So I had a prep machine for my 1st but keep seeing lots of praise for the nuby rapid cool things, how do these work? Are they better? Thoughts and reviews please 🙏🙏

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Milk/ formula intake. My baby doesn’t seem keen to drop any bottles

Hi!! Just wondering how many bottles your babies are having a day? My boy has 3 meals a day, plus snacks…and also 4 bottles (part formula, part oat milk as I try to wean him off formula. He has cows milk allergy) When I’ve skipped a bottle or reduced it to 3 he does seem to miss it and it upset until his next one. ...

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Warm milk

My little one turned 1 on the 5th, I’m mid transition onto cows milk. She will only drink very very warm bottles since she was newborn. As we’re nearly on full cows milk I’m struggling to think of ways to warm up the bottle when I’m out & about. We use mam bottles so the hot water/jug trick wouldn’t work😩 Any…

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Cows milk help

How did your LO cope with the transition to cows milk? My daughter was being offered 3 8oz bottles of formula a day, she would generally leave an ounce from her morning and evening bottle and 2oz from her midday one. Now she’s one this week we’ve made the straight swap to cows milk. This morning I offered 5oz in a...

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Baby doesn’t want to drink

The last two weeks my baby just doesn’t want to drink her bottles. She will have like 50 ml and the rest is a struggle (she’s on 7oz 5x a day). I’ve tried different temp, different teat and also tried to wait longer between bottles but no matter what I try she just doesn’t want to drink it. Starting to get worried a...

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Trying to introduce a bottle

Hi, I’ve been exclusively bf my 4 month little boy and I am trying to introduce a bottle but not having any luck what so ever, does anyone have any tips that could help please? Thanks 🤞🏻😊🤞🏻

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Steriliser?

Will I need a steriliser if we plan on using Mam bottles and dummies? They can both be sterilised in the microwave without a physical steriliser. We are limited on counter space and just looking at our options.

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How much milk are your babies having alongside their 3 meals a day?

How much milk a day are your babies having? My baby is having x4 bottles a day and 3 meals. Not sure how much milk they should have and there’s no guidance on this anywhere 🫣🫣🫣

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EBF looking for bottle care advice

I have a few questions on baby bottles…I breast feed but express enough for one bottle a day, which baby gets at night as part of the bedtime routine. We have 3-4 bottles in rotation, depending on if I’ve needed to pump more in the day or not, but generally there’s always one in the fridge. My questions are… 1) do...

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Philips Avent Natural Response Bottles

Anyone use these? My daughter is one month + 5 days old has really bad reflux gulps too fast when feeding. Currently using Tomee Tipee anti colic bottles. For some reason they were great when she was newly newly born but now that she is over one month there is leakage when she feeds at the sides of mouth. Her colic...

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7 months

The shoot only lasted a min until she decided to start playing with eggs 😭 It was so much more easier at 1-4 months

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Bottle size

Is anyone feeding a 7oz bottle yet? Our son is draining a 6oz bottle every 2.5 to 3 hours, he is on the 99th centile for height so he is a big baby. Any advice or experience would be great as our first was a terrible feedee so we are not used to this xx

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Doctors & CMPA Rant

I was just wondering if anyone is struggling with their doctors and their little one? My little one is on Pepti 1, has 6oz per feed (10 weeks old), and is drinking anywhere from 6-8 bottles a day. They prescribe us 400g tins x8 on a repeat prescription. The last time we collected was on the 4th of April, and I re...

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Bottles

Hi! I was wondering about bottle sizes - how many should I buy of the smaller size (150ml) and how many of the bigger size (260ml) Thanks!

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