Baby Formula Brands

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I’m confused about your snarky statement about BF on a clearly formula question.

Here’s the real answer: feed the formula that your child likes, and will drink. Use the bottles that are the same. All should fit your budget. There’s a lot of pressure to use “European” formula here, but there isn’t a lot regulating transport or sales, and TBH, a lot of these formulas are no more than grocery store brands there.

Formula is highly regulated. Bottles are purely preference.

Yes I know it is about formula, I wanted to avoid anyone having to remind me breast is best....again, because I know that

posters tend to sway the conversation, again I wanted to avoid that

[Anonymous]

HIPP. I couldn’t stand the smell of other formulas.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone’s newborn ever rejected a formula from day one?

I chose a formula that I liked the taste and smell of. HIPP and she was on it until 14 months. We used Dr Browns bottles but I would use glass bottles now.

Get a formula maker, OP. Seriously. It makes the bottle body temperature at the press of a button!

[Anonymous]

Our son is adopted and he was given Similac in the hospital and we stuck with it until we moved to whole milk. We did the ready to feed for 2-3 months and then moved to the powdered formula.

[Anonymous]

My daughter was on enfamil enfacare because of weight issues and it wasn't much of a choice. She definitely had some pooping and digestive issues with it though.

Son did similac, is a robust and fat little 14 month old now who had basically no problems.

Both used dr brown's plastic bottles.

Baby brezza is worth every freaking penny three times over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was on enfamil enfacare because of weight issues and it wasn't much of a choice. She definitely had some pooping and digestive issues with it though.

Son did similac, is a robust and fat little 14 month old now who had basically no problems.

Both used dr brown's plastic bottles.

Baby brezza is worth every freaking penny three times over.

FWIW both of these formulas were what the hospital had and gave although the enfamil is a special high calorie formula. You can't bring formula to the hospital so you'll start with whatever they have. If the baby takes to it I wouldn't switch.

[Anonymous]

+1000 for the baby brezza formula maker

also, dr browns and enfamil (only because that is what was at the hospital and we didn't want to fix it if it wasn't broken!)

[Anonymous]

Hipp, dr brown. I used earths best for first and it smelled like shit. Hipp has no smell and it’s made to higher standards.

[Anonymous]

Used Kirkland for the first baby. All formula is nutritionally the same, but my 2nd couldn’t tolerate it. Kirkland formula is very foamy when mixed...not sure if that had anything to do with it. It made her gassy and uncomfortable. We switched to Good Start then and stuck with it. Kirkland is so cheap - use it if you can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone’s newborn ever rejected a formula from day one?

I chose a formula that I liked the taste and smell of. HIPP and she was on it until 14 months. We used Dr Browns bottles but I would use glass bottles now.

Get a formula maker, OP. Seriously. It makes the bottle body temperature at the press of a button!

NP but yes. My daughter was SO picky. She would reject bottles brands that weren't her favorite, she rejected formula, she rejected frozen breast milk, she rejected bottles that weren't perfectly 98.6 degrees... on and on. Then later on at 12 months she rejected cow milk and refused it. She's just a particular type of person (not hard or difficult, she just likes things a certain way) and we should have known it from day one with the formula/bottle rejection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone’s newborn ever rejected a formula from day one?

I chose a formula that I liked the taste and smell of. HIPP and she was on it until 14 months. We used Dr Browns bottles but I would use glass bottles now.

Get a formula maker, OP. Seriously. It makes the bottle body temperature at the press of a button!

NP but yes. My daughter was SO picky. She would reject bottles brands that weren't her favorite, she rejected formula, she rejected frozen breast milk, she rejected bottles that weren't perfectly 98.6 degrees... on and on. Then later on at 12 months she rejected cow milk and refused it. She's just a particular type of person (not hard or difficult, she just likes things a certain way) and we should have known it from day one with the formula/bottle rejection.

No, I mean rejected a formula the very first feeding?

[Anonymous]

Get a couple different brands, including the European ones like HIPP, and taste them. Spill formulas on a cloth and smell it - that is how your whole house will smell.

[Anonymous]

Kirkland and Target Up and Up, tommee tipee bottles. They only have three parts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a couple different brands, including the European ones like HIPP, and taste them. Spill formulas on a cloth and smell it - that is how your whole house will smell.

This is true. Not only will your whole house smell like formula but you will too.

[Anonymous]

The HIPP stuff is such nonsense. Just go to the local grocery store and buy what they stock. See if your baby will drink it. If not, try a different one. There is NOTHING special about HIPP or Holle. It is just trendy right now and weirdo moms think it is special.