Baby Formula Feed

For the first six months of life, your baby needs only breast milk or infant formula to eat.  Breastmilk contains a unique mix of fatty acids, lactose, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and other important factors that combine to make the perfect infant food. It has everything a baby needs for easy digestion, brain development, healthy growth, and protection from illness.

How do I know if my baby is getting enough to eat?
Keep track of your baby’s wet and poopy diapers.  Once mom’s milk comes in, the theory of “what-goes-in-one-end-comes-out-the-other” works.  If your baby has 4-6 wet disposable diapers (or 6-8 cloth) and 3-4 poopy diapers in 24 hours that usually means they are getting enough breastmilk.  Talk to your baby’s health care provider at your office visits about your baby’s growth chart if you are concerned or curious.  (See below for online growth chart links.)  It is important to remember that as babies get a little older the number of bowel movements per day may decrease.  Some breastfed babies have only one bowel movement per week (after about 2 months of age).

How and when do I start my baby on solid foods?
Don’t rush to start solids.  They will only upset your baby’s tummy if you give them before your baby is ready to digest them.  Breast milk or formula is far more nutritious than any solid you could give your baby.  Solid foods aren’t as convenient, anyway!  Wait until your baby shows signs that they are ready.  Your baby’s health care provider can talk to you about the signs of readiness.   Usually babies are ready around six months old, and sometimes a little earlier.  Your baby’s first solid food should be an iron-fortified rice cereal.  You may hear that solid food will help your baby sleep through the night, but this is a myth.

What do I need to know about feeding my 1-2 year old?
At a year old, formula-fed babies can switch to whole cow’s milk. It is important to use “whole” milk, because children under two years old need fat for brain development. One-year-old breastfed babies will benefit from continuing to nurse, for as long as both mother and baby are happy with the arrangement. Your baby should be joining you at the table for meals, and be learning about mealtime as family time.

This is the information of Aptamil baby formula for the babies from newborn to growing up toddlers up to 3 years.

Aptamil is the UK’s fastest growing infant milk brand. Through our comprehensive research programme we have been leading the way in infant nutrition for over 50 years.

So you can be confident your baby will progress healthily, we’ll provide you with the best nutrition and feeding advice from conception through to toddlerhood.

Packaging Change
We’ve changed our packaging recently to make it easier to find in store. Extra Hungry is now called Aptamil Hungry milk and Easy Digest is now Aptamil Comfort. We have kept the same great formula throughout the range and your baby won’t notice any difference when you feed them, as nothing else has changed.

Milks from birth

From birth onwards

Follow On milk

For babies and toddlers from 6 months onwards

Growing Up milk

For toddlers from 12 months to 3 years

Special milks

For pre-term low birth weight and food tolerances

Aptamil Ready-To-Feed milks

Aptamil First, Aptamil Hungry milk and Aptamil Follow On milks are all available in ready-to-feed liquid in convenient 200ml cartons. Because ready-to-use baby milks are sterile, they’re the safest option when it’s not practical to make up fresh feeds. So when you’re short of time or out and about, you can feed your baby both easily and safely.

I want to feed my baby the best formula and this is what I have found so far but it says it is for toddlers. I was wondering if anyone knows for sure that it is still ok for babies to eat this formula too. My daughter is 2 weeks ancient and I am breastfeeding and I cant pump enough while I am in classes all day so I need to use formula too. Any information will help.thanks