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Baby Feeding Guide & Schedules

Whether you're formula feeding, breastfeeding or a combo of both, nourishing your baby is top of mind. Discover optimal feeding schedules—and amounts—for every week, along with expert-based advice to ensure your baby is well nourished from day one.

One-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

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4-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Is your 1-month-old ready to start drinking from a bottle? Here's what to know.

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Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

3-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Feeding a baby is hard work, mama. Make sure you're taking care of yourself, too.

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One-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

2-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Remember—feeding a newborn is a learned skill, and you're both doing great.

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One-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

1-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Feeding your baby comes with a learning curve—for you both!

Two-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

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Two-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

8-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Around 2 months, your baby may be ready to move into another size of clothes—which is always a bittersweet milestone.

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Two-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

7-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

You might start to find your 7-week-old's feeding schedule is becoming easier to manage and anticipate.

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Two-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

6-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Cluster feeding can be common at this stage, but we can help.

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Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

5-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Remember, routines can be liberating.

Three-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

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Three-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

12-week-old feeding baby schedule & amounts

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Three-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

10-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

You and your baby are really getting to know each other.

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Three-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

9-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Part of parenting—arguably the biggest part—is learning as you go.

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Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

11-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

When it comes to feeding your baby, you get to decide what works best for you.

Four- to 12-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

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Four to 12-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

12-month-old baby feeding schedule & expert advice

If you want to see proof of just how well you've done with feedings this year, mama, take a look at your baby. They aren't so little anymore!

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Four to 12-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

8-month-old baby feeding schedule & expert advice

No longer a novice with solid foods, your baby should have a pretty well-rounded meal plan these days.

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Four to 12-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

7-month-old baby feeding schedule & expert advice

Food before 1 is just for fun—but it can be a good amount of work, too.

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Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

6-month-old baby feeding schedule & expert advice

With solid foods now on the menu, feeding your baby is getting more exciting—and messy.

Real Feeding Stories from Real Mamas

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Many daycares don’t allow breast milk after 1 year of age

There’s a disconnect between medical guidance around extended breastfeeding and many mothers’ lived experience.

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Real Feeding Stories from Real Mamas

Breastfeeding is a marathon—and women’s bodies pay the price

We love our babies more than anything, and sometimes we feel like we have to sacrifice ourselves in order to prove our devotion.

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Motherly Stories

To the mama with low milk supply: You are resilient and more than enough

It was only after I had made peace with no longer breastfeeding my son, that the right tools fell into my lap and the milk began to flow. After many months of striving, I could finally exhale.

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Real Feeding Stories from Real Mamas

Milk, tears and mastitis paranoia: Hazy adventures in early breastfeeding

I think you must be what Rumi was writing about—“the universe in ecstatic motion.”

Baby Feeding Tips

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Our Partners

Breastfeeding is hard―but these 3 products are changing the game

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Celebrity News

Rumer Willis shamed for breastfeeding her 17-month-old daughter

Most of the commentary (frustratingly!) came from fellow women and moms, proving we still need to do more to normalize breastfeeding.

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Women's Health

Breastfeeding is a team sport

IBCLCs are the expert, clinical coaches parents deserve.

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Our Partners

Finding a routine with a new baby is hard. Here’s how Dr. Brown’s bottles can make it easier

4 tips to finding your daily flow.

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Our Partners

6 things parents should keep in mind while shopping for baby formula

Not all baby formulas were created equal.

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Women's Health

Can breastfeeding protect you against a future heart attack?

Breastfeeding is as much about your health as it is about your newborn’s. That surprising truth often goes unsaid.

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One-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

1-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Feeding your baby comes with a learning curve—for you both!

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One-Month-Old Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

2-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Remember—feeding a newborn is a learned skill, and you're both doing great.

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Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

3-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Feeding a baby is hard work, mama. Make sure you're taking care of yourself, too.

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Baby Feeding Guides & Schedules

4-week-old baby feeding schedule & amounts

Is your 1-month-old ready to start drinking from a bottle? Here's what to know.

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Baby Health

The FDA sets new lead limits in baby food—but is it enough to protect babies?

This new update aims to reduce lead exposure in young children.

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News

New report suggests that tongue-ties might be overdiagnosed, leading to unnecessary surgeries

Tongue-tie diagnoses have increased significantly over the past two decades.

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New mom must-haves: Here’s what we love about MAM bottles and why they top our list

For one, they couldn’t be easier to clean.

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News

Study shows no significant nutritional differences in baby-led weaning vs. spoon-feeding

Babies consumed the same number of calories whether they fed themselves solids or were spoon-fed.

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