Bottle Feeding and Alternatives

The information provided on these pages is intended for patients already under the care of the Infant Feeding Team.

 

Bottle feeding - Start4Life (NHS)

If you've decided to bottle feed, you may be worried about what formula to buy, what equipment you'll need and how to get the hang of feeding your baby when everything is so new.

 

Guide to infant milks

This simple guide provides a summary of infant milks suitable for use across the first 2 years of life, a series of questions and answers to explain some of the common issues that families may ask about infant milks, and provides details of how to make up milks safely.

 

How to make up a formula feed (Nottinghamshire Healthcare)

Here is a step-by-step guide to how to make up a formula feed, provided by Alison of the infant feeding team at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. 

 

Infant Feeding Support for Transgender and Non-binary Parents

Trans men, trans women and non-binary individuals may choose to breastfeed or chest feed their babies. You do not need to have given birth to breastfeed or chest feed, as we can also see in the experiences of those nursing adopted babies.

 

Infant Formula and responsive bottle feeding (Unicef)

How to encourage parents to be responsive to their baby's feeding cues and build close and loving relationships through feeding.

 

Paced Bottle Feeding

A breastfed baby should be paced fed with the bottle so that the baby doesn't develop a "flow preference" and then begin to reject the breast. This video shows exactly how to pace bottle feed an infant in real-time.

 

Responsive bottle feeding

This information gives tips on Bottle feeding your baby to help your baby to enjoy their feeds.

 

The constituents of breastmilk and formula (Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative)

This video by Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative gives a clear visual description of the differences between breast milk and formula milk.