Advantages and Disadvantages of Feeding A Baby Formula

Advantages of Feeding a Baby Formula

• It helps you to know the exact amount of milk the baby drinks, decreasing the possibility that the baby is left hungry.

• If you work out of your home you can indicate to anyone in your family how to feed the baby.

Disadvantages of Feeding a Baby Formula

• You will need to boil the bottle every day during the first weeks. After around a month, it will not be necessary to sterilize it, just to wash it out with hot water and allow it to drip dry over a fresh clean cloth.

• The baby is more likely to getting gasses because the nipples of bottles causes them to swallow more air.

• The baby can become allergic to the proteins of the milk. In this case, the pediatrician will need to prescribe another type of milk without lactose.

• Don’t change formulas from one moment to the next because the delicate digestive system of the baby needs to become used to a type of preparation.

• If in each feeding the baby has a different person, he or she might become scared, it is important to make the baby feel emotional stability.