formula feeding

Baby Health

6 tips to maintain your newborn’s routine during the holiday season

Silent nights are hopefully in your future.

Work & Motherhood

I helped import 1 million tins of formula to the U.S.: Here’s what I want parents to know

Kristy Carr, mom of three and founder of Bubs Australia and Aussie Bubs, is working 24/7 to get infant formula on store shelves safely—and in record time.

Children's Health

Do I need to give my baby vitamins? A dietitian shares what you need to know

Your infant gets most of what they need from breastmilk or formula—but there are a few important exceptions.

Motherly Stories

One mama’s important message: Normalize all the ways you can feed your baby

Normalize breastfeeding, formula, bottle feeding and pumping. Or a combo of all. And most importantly: Normalize not shaming yourself for how you feed your baby.

Life

Breast wasn’t ‘best’ for me

Bottle feeding my baby made me a happier mom.

Life

When the doctor said my baby needed to gain weight, we supplemented with formula

I had my heart set on exclusively breastfeeding, but as I've now seen, I know it's not the only "right" way to feed your little one.

Life

I had to fight to be heard when it came to feeding my baby at the hospital

And I would tell any new mother to do the same.

Motherhood Understood

Stephanie on birth trauma and finding the validation she needed to get help

"I thought as a mental health professional myself, I would be more aware of what I was going though and of the impact it had on me, but I was so lost, so sucked into the pain and loneliness and suffering, that I couldn't see through the fog."

Life

There is no easy way to feed a baby

Why are all of our options so hard?

Life

Feeding my baby formula made me a better mama

I was breastfeeding my daughter, and it was going well, but I did not feel like other mothers who describe the whole thing as an incredible bonding experience.

Life

My breastfeeding journey taught me that fed really is best

I'd been conditioned to think that since I was a woman, breastfeeding would be the most natural thing I've ever done. I forgot in all of this that all humans are different and that's part of the beauty of life.

Life

To the mama trying to feed her baby the best way she knows how

Take a deep breath. It’s going to be okay.