Feedings Human babies often do best with human breast milk. They have drank it for 200,000 years or so. It is easy to digest, helps fight infections, and produces less allergies than formulas do. To breast feed successfully a mother must be comfortable doing it. Oral vitamin D supplement is needed for breast fed infants when there is cold weather.
Formulas now are the best they have ever been.
Most babies thrive on them. Some babies feed every 1 to 2 hours. Some babies only feed every 4 to 6 hours. In the first 2 days of life the baby's appetite is usually poor. Newborns often lose weight in the first week and are then back up to their birth weight by their 2 week old office visit.