Bottle Feeding Routines - An Update

Mon, 5 May 2008
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By Mummy
Do babies follow the same feeding routines? My two babies had a similar pattern except my son at four months old had one less feed a day than my daughter had at the same age, but still gained weight and slept through the night.
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The last article I wrote was about the routines I adopted when feeding our first born child. Since having Caleb I decided I would write an article outlining the routines that I found worked best for him.

Caleb was born 6 weeks prematurely so our main aim was not to get him into a routine but for him to gain weight. As with Amélie I have bottle fed him and used the same formula SMA for new borns.

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Bottle Feeding and Routines

Wed, 7 Mar 2007
Mummy
By Mummy
How often do you feed your newborn baby? How much do you feed them? Should you feed on demand or have a routine? After extensive research and chatting with a few friends I opted for a routine and our baby has slept through the night from birth.
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Before Amélie was born I was really concerned about whether I would be feeding our baby too much or too little, how often to feed and how I would be able to set up any sort of routine.

It was only an hour and a half after Amélie was born that I was asked whether I was going to bottle feed or breast feed. I had decided that I wanted to bottle feed. I was then faced with the dilemma of which brand of formula do I use. I opted for SMA, not for any particular reason just the fact that it was well known and I had to make a decision there and then.

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