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For use by health professionals in advising parents and caregivers who have decided to partially or completely formula feed a baby. The booklet includes clear instructions on bottle feeding and how to choose an infant formula.

This booklet is for parents who must, or take decided to, use babe formula to feed their baby. In that location is as well a Quick reference guide in the center that has the key points from the booklet. You can pull out the guide and leave it where you can hands see it (eg, on the fridge).

If yous have not decided how y'all will feed your baby, it's important to discuss this with your midwife, medico or nurse first. Encounter the back of this booklet for more than data.

The Ministry of Health recommends exclusive breastfeeding to around six months of age and continued breastfeeding with appropriate complementary food up to two years of age, or across.

Breast milk is the all-time food for babies. It provides a wide range of nutrients for healthy growth and development and helps protect your baby from illness. Breastfeeding has benefits for mothers too. For more information nearly breastfeeding, encounter world wide web.breastfeeding.org.nz or world wide web.healthed.govt.nz

If it is not possible to breastfeed a baby (or use expressed breast milk), and so an infant formula should be used until the baby is 12 months quondam. When prepared cleanly and correctly, infant formula is a safe and nutritionally adequate food for a babe.

Feeding your babe infant formula
Choosing infant formula
Feed your infant safely
What you need for formula feeding
Cleaning and sterilising feeding equipment
Preparing a formula feed
Feeding your baby
Warming formula
Feeding your infant abroad from dwelling
For more data
Things to consider when deciding how to feed your baby

Feeding your baby babe formula

Babe formula is made for babies up to 12 months old who are non breastfed. If possible, endeavour to maintain some breastfeeding equally well as using formula.

Formula is all your baby needs until they are around six months old. At effectually half dozen months your baby volition probably outset eating some solid foods simply volition continue to need formula until 12 months of age.

Choosing infant formula

Choose a formula based on cows' milk, unless your midwife, medico, dietitian or nurse recommends a different type of formula for your baby.

Cows' milk-based formula

In that location are many formulas bachelor which can make choosing 1 a bit confusing. Virtually infant formula is made from cows' milk that has been modified to make it suitable for babies.

Many formulas today incorporate extra ingredients, eg, 'Aureate' formula. These formulas can price a lot more and may not provide whatever benefit over a cheaper standard version. Special formulas are too bachelor, such as HA (Hypo- allergenic), AR (Anti-reflux) or lactose-costless formulas, but virtually babies don't need a special formula. These formulas should only be used nether the direction of a wellness professional.

Infant formula from birth

Use a stage ane formula that is suitable for newborn babies. It should say 'from birth' or '0–12 months'. Your infant can stay on this aforementioned formula when y'all offset to introduce solid foods at effectually half-dozen months and go on on information technology until they are 12 months (1 year) quondam.

At that place are formulas labelled as 'follow-on' or stage 2. These should simply be given to babies anile half dozen months and over but are not necessary for nigh babies.

The labels on follow-on formula can wait very similar to baby formula, and then read them carefully to avert making a error.
Before buying formula, check the label for babe's historic period and the 'utilise-past' date. Never feed infant formula that is by its 'use-by' date to your baby.

Avoid bootleg infant formula

Avert using any kind of recipe for bootleg babe formula. Bootleg infant formula may not provide the right nutrients for your baby. They might also contain dangerous ingredients, or could be prepared in a way that allows harmful bacteria to grow. This tin lead to serious disease or even death.

Other drinks

Exercise not give other drinks to your babe. Never give tea, java, alcohol, fruit juice, cordial or fizzy drinks to your baby.

Unless your midwife, md, dietitian or nurse gives you different advice, a stage one 'from nascence' formula is the but type of formula your baby needs until they are 12 months (1 twelvemonth) erstwhile.

When your baby is 12 months quondam, they tin can drinkable (dark blue label) cows' milk instead of infant formula.

Feed your baby safely

Powdered infant formula is non sterile, which means it may contain low levels of bacteria. These bacteria very rarely crusade affliction in babies when the formula is prepared and stored correctly.

Always follow the manufacturer'southward instructions (on the label) when preparing infant formula and the instructions in this booklet to safely:

clean feeding equipment
sterilise feeding equipment (using heat or chemicals to kill germs)
prepare a formula feed.

What you need for formula feeding

You'll need:

Feeding bottles and teats with caps, collars and sealing discs

A bottle castor and a teat brush

Sterilising equipment, such as a pot (shown) to boil the feeding equipment in, a steam steriliser or common cold-water sterilising chemicals

A covered container to absurd the boiled water in

Infant formula powder

Bottles and teats

Bottles

Bottles with straight sides and wide necks are the easiest to clean.
Glass bottles are easier to make clean than plastic but suspension more hands.

Teats

Cull teats that match your babe's historic period.

Newborn babies – one hole in the tip of the teat gives a tiresome catamenia that is easier to manage.
Older babies – more than one hole gives a faster menstruation.

Formula should baste from the teat at most 1 drop per second when tipped. There are a range of teats available. Talk to your health professional or pharmacist about which type of teat is best for your baby.

Cleaning and sterilising feeding equipment

Newborn and immature babies are at chance of infection because their allowed organization is not fully developed withal. You must wash and sterilise all feeding equipment until your baby is at least half-dozen months former. From 6 months, thorough washing and rinsing are plenty.

Follow the steps beneath for all feeding equipment that y'all utilize for your baby – whether yous are using expressed breast milk or baby formula.

Cleaning

Clean the feeding equipment as soon as possible later a feed. Feeding equipment must be washed and rinsed before it is sterilised.

A dishwasher tin be used to clean feeding equipment but will non sterilise it.

Make clean the piece of work surfaces (demote and sink) with hot soapy h2o.

Wash your easily well with soap and water, and dry them on a make clean material or paper towel.

Wash the feeding equipment in hot soapy h2o:

utilise the bottle and teat brushes to make clean the bottles and teats inside and out, making sure you get all the milk out of them
make clean any other items used (eg, bottle caps, container and container lid for storing boiled, cooled water).

Rinse all equipment in clean, common cold running h2o before sterilising.

Sterilising

Y'all must sterilise feeding equipment until your baby is at to the lowest degree 6 months old. In that location are several means to sterilise, such as:

sterilising past boiling
steam sterilising
using cold-water sterilising tablets or solution.

If sterilising by boiling

Fill a big pot with h2o.

Place the done feeding equipment in the water. Make certain that everything is completely covered with water and that no air bubbling are trapped.

Put the lid on the pot and bring the water to the eddy. Boil in a rolling eddy for 1 minute.

Plough the stove off and keep the pot covered until you lot need the feeding equipment.

Proceed the pot handle turned away from the edge of the stove. Keep children away from boiling h2o.

If sterilising by steam or with chemicals

Follow the manufacturer'south instructions when using steam (in an electric or microwave steam steriliser) or chemicals (sterilising tablets or solution).

Leave feeding equipment in the steriliser until needed.

After sterilising

It's best to remove bottles merely before they are used. If yous remove the bottles before you lot need them, they should exist put together fully with the teat and cap on.

Ever wash your easily before touching sterilised feeding equipment, and try non to affect the inside of the bottle and the within and outside of the teat.

Preparing a formula feed

Formula should be made upward fresh for each feed. Harmful leaner can abound in prepared formula, and the longer the formula is kept earlier apply, the greater the risk of your baby getting sick. If you are taking your baby's formula feed out with you, see 'Feeding your baby abroad from home'.

Always read the formula labels carefully and follow the manufacturer'due south instructions.

Check the use-past date located on the base of the formula can. If yous have formula that is past its use-past date, throw it out.
Brand sure you have a clean surface on which to prepare the formula feed.
Wash and dry out your hands before opening the formula can.
Always put the plastic lid back on the tin after use.
Store the formula can in a cool, dry place (eg, the pantry). Use within 4 weeks of opening.

Preparing safe h2o for formula

From birth until your baby is at to the lowest degree 6 months old, all h2o used for formula should be boiled and cooled to room temperature on the mean solar day y'all use it. Make sure yous get out enough fourth dimension for the boiled water to absurd to room temperature (until information technology no longer feels warm) earlier it's needed.

i) Boil plenty water to final the day.

If you apply an electric jug, boil a total jug until it turns off.
If you employ a stove top kettle, boil until it makes a loud whistle.
If yous are humid water in a pot on the stove, let the h2o come up to a rolling boil for i minute.

Pour boiled h2o into a sterilised container, cover and leave to cool to room temperature – until it no longer feels warm. Store out of direct sunlight. Proceed for upwards to 24 hours – throw it away after that.

If you live in a urban center or a town

From six months of age you tin use cold water straight from the tap to brand formula. Run the tap for 10–15 seconds earlier you collect the h2o.

If you lot apply bore or tank water

Diameter water and tank water should exist boiled until your baby is 18 months one-time. If your water comes from a private supply (such as from a well or bore), take it tested for any contaminants that could impairment yous and your babe. If testing shows water is high in nitrates, information technology is not suitable for preparing infant formula.

Bottled h2o

Bottled water is not recommended as it is not sterile. Like tap water, bottled h2o needs to exist boiled and then allowed to cool before it is used to set up formula.

Step-by-step guide to preparing a formula feed

Prepare the formula only before you feed your baby. Use cooled, boiled water if your baby is under 6 months.

Different types of formula come up with unlike-sized scoops. Make sure that you use simply the scoop that comes with the formula yous are using.

Clean a surface on which to prepare the formula feed.

Launder your easily with soap and water and dry them on a make clean fabric or paper towel.

Read the instructions on the formula can to notice out how much water and how much powder you need. Never add more than or less formula powder or water than recommended. This could make your baby very ill.

Pour the correct amount of safe water (boiled water that has been left to cool) from the container into a cleaned and sterilised canteen before adding the formula pulverisation.

Use the scoop provided with the tin to measure out the powder. Level the pulverisation with a make clean knife, but don't pack it downwards. Add together the correct number of scoops to the water in the bottle. Always put the h2o into the bottle first, before calculation the powder.

Property the edge, attach the teat and the neckband to the bottle – avoid touching the function of the teat that will get in your baby'south mouth.

Encompass the teat with the cap. Gently shake or swirl the bottle until the formula is mixed well.

If you have warmed the formula, drip some of it on the inside of your wrist to check the temperature. It should feel warm, but not hot.

Feed your baby.

Utilise the formula within two hours. If at that place is whatever formula left in the bottle afterward 2 hours, e'er throw it abroad.

Bacteria can grow in formula. The risk of infection increases over time, so that's why it's important to brand upwards a fresh feed each time your infant needs it and throw any leftover formula away after ii hours.

Tin I shop prepared formula to use later?

It'south best to prepare the formula just before your babe needs it. If y'all have no option and demand to store prepared formula:

prepare it in private bottles
store it in the bottom half of the fridge at the back (2–iv°C) for no more than 24 hours.

Feeding your babe

It is of import to always hold your babe when feeding.

Sit in a comfortable chair with your elbows, arms and back supported.

Hold your babe close to you and look into their eyes when feeding. This helps your baby to feel safe and loved.

Hold your baby in the bend of your arm – it may be more than comfortable to switch arms mid-feed.

Proceed your baby nearly upright and the bottle at the right angle (see below) while y'all feed them – this helps to preclude ear infections acquired by the formula flowing into the middle ear.

Alter sides during a feed or at every other feed to encourage heart and caput movement.

Concur the bottle:

with enough teat in the baby's oral fissure to class a tight seal
with the teat in the centre of the mouth and over the tongue
at an bending so that the formula fills the teat and bottle neck
firmly so that the baby can pull confronting it while sucking.

Winding (burping) lets your babe bring up any air swallowed during feeding. If your baby wants to stop feeding too presently, they may need burping before they can get on feeding.

Canteen-fed babies, just similar breastfed babies, know when they have had plenty. Don't worry if your baby doesn't stop the canteen.

Never leave your baby lying with a bottle to suck on as there is a hazard they may choke. If they fall asleep with milk in their oral cavity, the milk can harm their teeth.

How much formula does my baby need?

The number of feeds and the amount of formula taken at each feed varies between infants and over time. The formula can volition give general guidelines most how much formula your infant may need.

Babies are usually fed on demand, and then learn your baby'southward hunger signs. Some sleepy newborn babies may need waking up to feed. If you are worried because your babe is sleepy and difficult to feed, talk to your midwife, doctor or nurse.

In hot weather or if your baby is sick, they may demand extra feeds.

Warming formula

You lot can warm the prepared formula, just it'southward not necessary to practice so.

Always check the temperature of warmed formula earlier giving it to your baby. It should feel warm, merely not hot.

Milk shake the bottle and drip some of the formula on the inside of your wrist (without touching the teat). Formula that feels just warm on your wrist is safe for your baby.
Formula that is too hot or unevenly heated can cause serious burns to your baby'southward mouth and pharynx.
To reduce the adventure of your babe getting ill from harmful leaner, never reheat warmed or partly used feeds.

With any warming method, prepare the formula just before warming. When the prepared formula has been warmed, use information technology within 2 hours and throw out any unused formula.

Information on 'How to' warm formula is available on the Ministry of Wellness'due south website.

Microwaves are not recommended for warming formula considering they tin overheat the formula or heat it unevenly and burn your baby's mouth and throat.

Feeding your babe abroad from home

Even when you are away from home, formula should be prepared just before yous feed your baby.

Before leaving home

Measure the right amount of cooled, boiled water for 1 feed into a cleaned and sterilised canteen and firmly place the cap on.

Put the correct corporeality of formula pulverization into a cleaned and sterilised container.

Prepare an extra canteen of water and enough extra pulverization (in a second container) to let for delays.

At feeding time

Add the formula powder to the water only when your baby needs a feed.

If you lot are travelling by machine, stop to feed your baby.

Your infant may need actress fluids on a long trip (infant formula or water), specially in summer.

If y'all are travelling and need to take prepared formula, don't warm it before you travel. Put the prepared formula in a chilly bin or insulated bag and use it inside 2 hours. Throw abroad any unused formula.

For more information

If y'all need advice and support with breastfeeding or formula feeding, enquire for aid from:
your midwife, doctor or nurse
a Well Kid Tamariki Ora nurse or band Plunketline 0800 933 922 (24 hours)
an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
the La Leche League (breastfeeding advice and support only)
a community or private-practice dietitian
the Parents Middle.

You tin also ask your midwife, doctor or nurse for Eating for Healthy Babies and Toddlers from Birth to ii Years Old (Code HE1521) or read it online at www.healthed.govt.nz

Infant feeding in an emergency

For data on feeding your baby in an emergency and how to prepare for an emergency, run into the Ministry of Health website.

Things to consider when deciding how to feed your baby

If you lot take non decided how you volition feed your baby, it'southward important to talk over this with your midwife, doctor or nurse starting time. The list beneath has things to consider before you make up one's mind.

Breastfeeding is the all-time way to feed your baby.
The price of infant formula and feeding equipment on your household budget.
The fourth dimension involved in preparing formula compared to the convenience of breastfeeding.
Giving baby formula to a breastfed baby will reduce your breast milk supply.
If you decide non to breastfeed or to cease breastfeeding, it is possible to restart only it will be difficult.
For some women, establishing breastfeeding is more than difficult than for others, but with the correct support, almost mothers can breastfeed.

Healthy eating while breastfeeding is of import, merely if you are worried virtually the quality of your diet, don't permit that stop you from breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is yet the best pick for your baby – meet Eating for Salubrious Breastfeeding Women (Code HE1806), available at www.healthed.govt.nz

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