If you supplemented with formula, which did you use, and which bottles worked best?

Joey was 4.1kg when she was born and was a very hungry baby, so she was starving all the time. I felt like I was breastfeeding constantly, so I gave her some formula to top her up a little. In England, when I had my first baby, Maya Rose, I gave her Aptamil; but that wasn’t available in Singapore back in 2013, so Joey got NAN – and she loved it! I remember setting up a little NAN formula bar in the nursery so it was easily accessible.

Oh my lord, the collection of bottles we used to have! I used so many bottles – Singapore has countless brands that you can choose from, but the winner for Joey was Japanese brand Pigeon. She liked that the bottle has a softer teat compared to other brand bottles.

Susan

I SWITCHED TO FORMULA WHEN I WAS READY TO STOP BREASTFEEDING. I INTRODUCED A BOTTLE OF MY BREAST MILK BY WEEK SEVEN OR EIGHT TO GET THE BABIES USED TO TAKING A BOTTLE TOO. Sol

I did one feed a week with formula from week six.

This was to make sure that they liked the taste and got familiar with a bottle as I was planning on returning to work at three months. I used Bellamy’s Organic Formula and Avent bottles.

Esther

Similac. Avent. There are so many bottles out in the market. What I learnt from all of this is that sometimes less is best. Just sticking to a conventional bottle is good enough. We don’t need anything fancy – most of it is a marketing gimmick! Sharon

I SUPPLEMENTED WITH SOY MILK BECAUSE I WAS ALLERGIC TO COW’S MILK WHEN I WAS A BABY. SO I DECIDED TO GIVE MY SON ENFAMIL AND ISOMIL – SOY PROTEIN. I USED COMOTOMO BOTTLE AND EVENTUALLY MEDELA. BOTH WORKED REALLY WELL. AS MY SON GREW OLDER I MIXED SOY PROTEIN WITH COW’S MILK TO SLOWLY INTRODUCE HIM. THEN I WOULD SWITCH IT UP BY BUYING COW MILK POWDER AND MIXING WITH SOY OR ALMOND MILK.

Jessica