completly lost on what formular to buy ??

Well Amelias been breastfed for the past 8months and has never had formular , as i am going back to work in May i am going to start her on formular within the nxt month or so , i do plan to combine breastfeeding and formular once im back at work , i would love to be able to send her off to daycare with bottles of expressed milk but i realise thats not practical as i find it very hard to express and never am able to get much out at a time .

My question is : what brand and type of formular is good ? i know nothing about any of them . to my knowledge she has no alergies to anything , she use to suffer from colic and reflux but hasnt had that since she was about 4 months old so all in all i think shes pretty normal and doesnt need anything too fancy . i just dont know where to start .

You can get sachets for under $1, which you add to 200ml of water. We personally use Karicare (just the normal one, not the Gold one), for no other reason than it was what they were given in hospital. Different babies react in different ways to different formulas though...so it may be worth getting some sachets, try maybe one feed a day on them and allow a few days for it to get into her system to see how she goes on it.

we used karicare with bailey - just the normal one not gold and with aidan he was put on s26 in NICU so just continued

Id go to the supermaket and buy a few single sachets to try before going ahead and buying a big tin

Liam has Karicare and we have no problems, he was on gold for the first week but it didn't sit well with him so we switched.

I agree that the sachets are a great idea, we bought some to see how he'd take it before we started him on it full time.

If you go to all the different formula company websites you can request samples of their product and they often send you other free stuff too

S26
Karicare
Nurture
Nestle Nan

This is quite a good article on weaning.

Edited by Mrs_B

I develop infant formulas, and to be honest the regulations are so strict that really theres not much in it between the brands (apart from specialised formulas). The main difference is the gold formulations have extra goodies in them, but as you've gone this far with BFing and she will still be partly BF'd, I'd just go for the standard cheaper formula. Also I've noticed more bubs have issues with the gold ones.

Karicare and Heinz are both made in NZ (and I got samples from work) so I've mainly used them with Jake. He still has Heinz gold toddler at night. I preferred Heinz as Karicare was frothier. They tend to be cheaper than ones made overseas (not because they are inferior, so don't feel you need to buy a more exp brand as it won't necessarily be better!).

When Morgan started one formula at night (4mths) we tried karicare and it made her burpy. Then I tried Novolac sweet dreams and she slept way better on it and wasn't burpy, and when we went away I tried sachets of karicare and she didn't sleep so well, so I've stuck to the Novolac.

But now that Millie-moo is sleeping well you won't need anything like that!

I'd just get a Karicare and Heinz sachet and try them both, then pick one and stick to the same brand so she gets used to it.