We did bottles before food till about 9 months then food took over and DD dropped a bottle then another and was on 2 bottles a day at about 11 months I think.
I really think that we all gave BF a good crack and we should be proud of ourselves!! I try not to dwell on it either or see it as a failure but some days its easy and some days hard!
DD was feeding evey 3 hrs from birth and that pretty much stayed that way till she got the hang of solids..
We started on NAN HA gold but gave DD huge wind pains so switched to S26 gold and stayed on that - we switched to step 2 and DD would not have a bar of it so we stayed on step 1 till 12 months and it worked very very very well!!
sorry trying to answer sone of the questions that I can remember seeing!
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