Infant feeding Olivia

Infant feeding Olivia Providing specialist infant feeding support to families in and around Farnham, Surrey.

06/12/2025

I say this to mum's all the time 'trust your gut'
If something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't.

I was 36 weeks into my pregnancy with my third and was hoping for a home birth, and dreamed of one.
The midwifery team I was booked with did not support this, actively ignored me when I requested to meet with the home birth team, and insisted I was high risk and needed consultant care. At 36 weeks I left them. The took me on, listened to me, advocated for me and supported me in all my choices.

I was lucky enough to have the home birth of my dreams, with the medical team supporting me every step of the way.

24/10/2025

I have supported a few families over the past few months who have been over feeding their newborn baby. (No fault of their own!) They had been following the guidance on the packaging!
Their babies were struggling with being settled + content, not finishing feeds, uncomfortable, crying during feeds, constipation.

They didn't know they were over feeding their little ones. Just in 1 smaller feed their babies were more comfortable and content.

Education is key! As is understanding the biology of your new tiny human.

- Babies are born with a natural suck swallow reflex. Meaning whatever is placed in their mouth they will suck and swallow. So it becomes easy to over feed a new born when bottle feeding.

- they have tiny stomachs. When in the womb they didn't require their digestive system to store + process milk. It takes time for it to grow and get up to speed with processing milk

- only feeding 6 times a day is dangerous - infants are biological wired to feed little and often. This may cause parents to ignore their infants ques by using a dummy, shushing/ rocking/ extended crying periods

- overfeeding can of course lead to excessive weight gain. Causing long term health issues linked to being over weight.

- By 1 week of age babies formula feeds should be calculated using the method of 150ml per kg weight divided by 8. (Increasing to 200ml/ kg if needed)
So it looks like this
Baby weighs 3.500g at 7 days old

150ml x 3.5kg = 525 ( total 24h milk)
525 ÷ 8 = 66ml per feed ( rounded up)

Awareness around your baby not taking the same amount is feed is needed. Sometimes that may only want 40ml the next feed that may have 80ml.
You need to be aware of the total milk volume in 24 hours for steady weight gain.

We also don't need to be giving the formula companies any more money then they need 🤑

If you are struggling with formula feeding reach out to your local healthcare provider or a specialist like myself.


21/10/2025

Not an extensive list. Just a handful of those famous faces who are proud to share their breastfeeding journey.

Everyone's time line for breastfeeding looks different, it even looks different for each child that you have.
Mine was like this:
6 months
9 months
2 years 10 months.

What was yours?

14/10/2025

Come with me on a home visit.

These days are the best!

I love visiting my clients at home, I find it so much easier and better to teach infant feeding in their own environment. I can see their set up and how they would naturally feed their baby in their home rather than in a clinic setting.


10/10/2025

Boys.
I was a boy mama for 11 years.
I was on my own for 6 years of it.
It was hard, exhausting + relentless. But it was joyful, happy, adventurous.

My boys are growing up, they're nearly adults. Oh how I wish to go back, to slow down, to drink them in. I'll treasure our memories of just the 3 of us forever, they made me who I am.

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