Baby Formula Brands

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

What? I’ve only FF and my home and person don’t smell like formula. The baby’s clothes do, at least until I change them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

It doesn’t stink. And it tastes good - that is all I know.

Calm down, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

What? I’ve only FF and my home and person don’t smell like formula. The baby’s clothes do, at least until I change them.

No one told you. Your house smelled like formula and so did you.

[Anonymous]

Newborns would take whatever formula you feed them. The question is whether it works for them. DD was super cinstipated from formula and would go up to 10 days with no poop. Eventually we found that Gerber Good Start works well for her after trying many brands. With DS, he was fine with Similac even though his poop is on the loose side. We tried Kirkland since everyone swears by it but he has a BM every time after feeding. Smells diarrhea-ish too. We ended up using Gerber Good Start with him as well.

We use Dr. Brown bottles and those parts are so tedious to wash!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HIPP. Dr Brown’s glass bottles.

HIPP tasted the best and didn’t stink.

Which reliable websites do ppl order Hipp and Holle from?

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Enfamil. We started on that because it had the little pre-made 2 oz bottles. Once it became clear we were going to be using a lot of formula we tried to switch to Similac (available at Costco) and it made her screamingly, insanely gassy. After three tries we switched back to Enfamil.

Some kids will need something really specific (no cow milk proteins, etc) but most will be okay with a wider array. Whichever one you use, keep an eye out for them to send you coupons. And if you're in a mom's group you might ask if any BF moms have the sample kits they got in the mail -- the moms in my P.A.C.E. group collectively gave me about $300 worth of Enfamil samples, and many times that in the booklets of coupons that came in each sample box.

We use Dr. Brown's because that's what the LC told us to use, so we threw away our Philips Avent. A friend's LC told her to use Philips Avent so she threw away her Dr. Brown's. It's all preference from what I can tell, so use the one with fewer parts.

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We used Holle. We may go with baby's only this time. I loved Holle but it was expensive. I have a bunch of gift cards from Amazon so I am planning on using them to buy US formula.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HIPP. Dr Brown’s glass bottles.

HIPP tasted the best and didn’t stink.

Which reliable websites do ppl order Hipp and Holle from?

Organic Start

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Anonymous wrote: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.

According to my pediatrician, Kirkland is made by Similac-at least it was when my LO was an infant .

[Anonymous]

To all of you saying HIPP and HOLLE. Look up the recent article about how these are being sold to the US through third parties illegally and are not regulated by the fda like American made formulas are.

To answer your question OP: target, Ferber or Kirkland brand. They are all highly regulated so it really doesn't matter. If your kid won't drink it-try another one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all of you saying HIPP and HOLLE. Look up the recent article about how these are being sold to the US through third parties illegally and are not regulated by the fda like American made formulas are.

To answer your question OP: target, Ferber or Kirkland brand. They are all highly regulated so it really doesn't matter. If your kid won't drink it-try another one.

They are regulated by higher standards in place for formula in EU. FDA doesnt regulate prenatal vitamins, yet we all take them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HIPP. Dr Brown’s glass bottles.

HIPP tasted the best and didn’t stink.

Which reliable websites do ppl order Hipp and Holle from?

I order HIPP Dutch formula in bulk from dutchexpatshop. It ends up being not much more than American formula that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HIPP. Dr Brown’s glass bottles.

HIPP tasted the best and didn’t stink.

This. DD is breastfed except for one bottle of formula at night and HIPP is the only one she will take happily. She loves it!

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HIPP and get a Breeza Formula Maker. It’s heaven!

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We just used Target for awhile. And Chicco bottles.