and people answer with have you tried breast milk! It’s free no warming up and always with you. Can we all assume they couldn’t breast feed! I couldn’t! I had NO milk I tried and tried and pumped and pumped and nothing! My daugher was in the NICU and I was very stressed out/sad. The nurse said that could’ve dried up my milk! PLEASE people be courteous and just answer what they are asking. BTW I just had to get this out! Sorry!

My baby is two months old and I switched him to a lactose free formula to see if it would stop his crying after feeding. If I lay him down he cries almost immediately. After an hour of feeding he runs his hands to his mouth for more food even though he doesnt finish his 5 ounces during the feeding. How can I get him to stop crying when I set him down? Even if he is asleep he will wake up and cry when I lay him down. I’m going to go crazy!

I’m pregnant with twins. I’ve decided to pump my breast milk for the first 3 months, and then switch them to an organic lactose-free, gluten free baby formula. I would like to know what your feeding schedule is for your multiples? Do you wake them up in the middle of the night to feed them? How often did you feed them? I will be using a hands free apparatuss to feed the twins. I would like to know what you did to keep your multiples on the same feeding schedule. Please no rude answers. Thanks.

I’m curious about parents who are formula feeding but planned to breastfeed.
Did you get formula from your OB/Hospital/Pediatrician without asking for it? Did you get marketing materials from any formula companies or samples of free formula in the mail?
I got formula from my OB, the hospital, and from my pediatrician’s office upon request when my twins were born. I say upon request because I was told that if you have twins and your pediatrician sends a letter to enfamil they give you a free case so I had them send a letter when my girls were around 6 weeks old.
Aside from that, though, I got checks, free formula in the mail, pamplets, and a “breastfeeding” bag from Enfamil (2 actually, 1 for each baby) where they had a little booklet about problems with breastfeeding, ice bags for frozen milk with the enfamil logo on them, and free cans of formula.
Is it any wonder I ended up giving my twins formula constantly when they came home and I was frustrated with pumping and trying to get them to nurse?
With my son, whom I am breastfeeding, I have gotten nothing.
No formula from my midwife, no swag bag, nothing in the mail because the office I went to with my son doesn’t sell your info to nestle, the makers of similac, and enfamil. Nothing from the hospital because they are recognized by the WHO as baby friendly…
nothing!
Is it any wonder that I am breastfeeding him with success?
Just curious if you all had the same experience as me!

I wanted to ask this again, because the words got twisted around a bit and i only got one legitimate answer.
If you have a personal experience, feel free to share.
Yes, this is the age old “debate”
If you chose to breast feed from birth, why is it okay for the hospital to offer formula to the baby and that’s okay, but on the other hand if you are formula feeding from birth, it’s NOT okay to recommend that you breast feed. Formula is thrown at babies with jaundice, even though the mother has colostrum which will still make the baby have bowel movements, so it’s not always a valid reason to use formula in place of breast milk. That’s just one example I have heard from breast feeding moms on here, being offered formula at the hospital.
Then on a different not, I have heard women complain about WIC encouraging breast feeding. Isn’t WIC supposed to help teach you proper nutrition, not just give out checks for free formula? Good nutrition would be encouraging the best option, right?
So offering formula is not pushing, but bringing up breast feeding as an option is pushing?
What makes the difference?

the hospital gave me free formula by similac and enfamil, i have been using only similac so should i just toss the enfamil or is it safe to use after i run out of the similac

We had issues with my daughter related to her reflux. The doctor suggested we try soy for a little while to see if that helped her constipation (she was mostly breastfed, but she’d throw up so much that I’d run out of milk and have to use some formula.) The soy was horrible and made her diapers SO STINKY!!!! Not only that, but she smelled horrible to. It also constipated her even worse than the regular formula. I honestly wouldn’t suggest using it unless you find out your little one can not digest the lactose that is in most formulas.

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