Baby Milk for Hospital

[BakewellGin1]

Advised that I need to take milk into hospital...
Which is best in your opinion ?
Also approx how many ?
Thank You

You’re not bleating just for mentioning breastfeeding; I do maintain that a parade of posters just saying “you should breastfeed” without any other advice or support is extremely unhelpful and has no place on a thread like this. I would say the same on a thread of someone struggling with breastfeeding, asking advice l, and if a parade of posters came on saying “you should formula feed” without any other advice!

onemorego2019

Have you even read the thread? For starters OP’s question was not about breastfeeding. Secondly, do you really think all people have done is ‘mentioned’ breastfeeding?

With DS1, my breasts didn't change size during pregnancy at all. When he was born, I didn't produce any colostrum let alone any breast milk. I sat for hours with pumps on both breasts. Nothing. Nada. MW gave him a bottle of glucose and suggest Cow and Gate to stop DS starving. He thrived on it.

Good luck with your baby OP.

@Nothisispatrick nope not all of it but enough to get the gist

Op asked for advice on which formula. She got some advice but also some suggestions/advice on breastfeeding. From what I read people trying to be helpful. It's a trait of a bf mum to want to share and help.

Then it got into mud throwing and people yet again pointing the finger at breast feeding mums being pushy etc...

Typical bashing stuff

@BakewellGin1 I'd talk to your midwife. If you want formula as a contingency then the ready made bottles look handy. I didn't manage to bf my first. Mainly due to poor advice and anxiety. I did bf my next two babies successfully. Every baby is different. But do you know what every bf mum will always offer their help to you xx

It's a trait of a bf mum to want to share and help.
What a nonsense...some bf mums will want to share and help, some will not care and some will want to make themselves feel wonderful about their choices by denigrating others. Such a disparate group of people can't have a 'trait.'

My head fell off after a 12 month labour in a yurt with an aardvark as a midwife and I had to single handedly grow my own body using stem cells from the umbilical cord... I still managed to breast feed all of my septuplets and a couple of other babies that were on the ward that day.

Raspberry88 I actually couldn’t be bothered to reply to that ridiculous fucking comment 😂😂

Speechless at the venom here.

Ask any breast feeding mum to share her experience and I guarantee they will help you.

Ask any mum to share her experience and she will most likely help you.

There, fixed that.

Splitting hairs @Nothisispatrick

No. It’s an important distinction as your post is suggesting 1. All breastfeeding women are good people 2. Only breastfeeding women will give you baby advice

It’s bollocks

@wombatsears I get you.

I often worry about being seen to be pushy but will always share my experiences. Tentatively at first! One mum to another. I'll keep doing it. I know I've helped some and they themselves have then gone on to help others. I'm lucky to have experienced it from both sides, thinking I was in the 2% but later finding out I wasn't it was just bad advice and circumstance.

What does ‘organic’ synthetic milk mean? I’m genuinely curious- because organic is usually meant to be vegetables or products that are made without too many chemicals but formula is just chemicals. It’s whey powder as a base not milk as such.

Everything is just chemicals though!

Hipp organic has milk as its first ingredient so you're talking crap (the start of the ingredient list is here):

Organic SkimmedMilk, OrganicWheyPowder (partially demineralised), Organic Vegetable Oils (Organic Palm Oil*, Organic Rapeseed Oil, Organic Sunflower Oil), OrganicLactose

Yeah that’s why I’m confused what makes hipp organic but aptamil not?

Milk is not the main ingredient in formula - whey powder is

Did you read the ingredient list i posted? The milk, lactose, whey is all organic

First ingredient : Organic SkimmedMilk

Aptamil, Cow & Gate and SMA all do the little readymade bottles with teats in our local supermarket.

DC1 wouldn’t latch and I had formula in. I expressed for a year for her. Having it in meant I could relax and not worry about her starving. Stress affects supply

DC2 won’t take a bottle (awkward sod) but on the rare occasions I’ve not been there due to emergencies she flat out refused expressed milk, took about an ounce of Aptamil, then nearly a full 200ml bottle of Cow a& Gate - she likes the cheapest stuff

She’s weaned now, so I’d just tell whoever had her to bing her a yoghurt or some porridge.

She was in neonatal and we were on a transitional ward for 9 days, although they said they didn’t provide formula if you were intending to breastfeed, they did on this ward. They also provided nipple shields too, which are apparently banned on the normal postnatal wards.

This was Leeds GI, in April this year.

Good luck in doing what’s right for you and your baby

*intending to formula feed (obviously!)

@Nothisispatrick

No. Not at all. Not what I said or implied. Points 1 and 2 are the spin you add to reinforce your beliefs.

You call bollocks rather than listening.

With the right support and advice most women can feed. Those that can't are in a minority and should be respected. But in modern times we have options available to us to ease the burden. Formula is one of those.

This thread and some of the comments are exactly what I have been afraid of since DD was born.

I wanted to BF. I tried. She lost fourteen percent of body weight whilst IN hospital. I kept trying. We got home, she lost 13.8 and a further .2 and we were going back in. I had to top up with formula. I then rang BF support group for advice. I was crying. They said they would not help because she had been given formula.

I have barely had the confidence to go out. She is eleven weeks old and on Tuesday I went to the first ever group. I fed her in the car before I went in, terrified of the judgement. I was stupid. The mums were lovely. Eight babies, two mix fed, two formula fed, four BF.

The only feeding group locally is a BF group which I am not welcome at.

We should be supporting each other, it's hard, I wanted to do it, I couldn't and I feel awful. Some of the comments here compound that.

And I should add I did not go to bed or sleep for three weeks. I fed her constantly, to no avail. I was almost broken as a result. I am still feeding her myself whenever I can but she remains on formula.

@homemadegin I was exactly the same. Baby went from 75th to 8th centile. HV said she was just finding her line. GP and consultant doctor said failure to thrive. Top up with formula. Breast feeding support said DON’T do formula. We will support you to breast feed. Someone will come round to the house. It will be positioning. We will improve your supply.
Nope. She had a tongue tie.
Formula made my sad, hungry baby into a super content lovely child.

OP if you plan to breastfeed and that doesn’t work out in hospital then the hospital will provide you with formula. You get to pick. I chose Apitmal but then cow and gate when I used formula at home. As others have said supermarkets do the boxes of 4 ready made bottles with disposable teats. They are excellent to start. If formula feeding from the start then buy a perfect prep machine. Amazing pieces of equipment.

Enjoy your first few weeks with baby. Newborn snuggles and midnight staring are the best xxx