Guidance

Start4Life updated guide to bottle feeding

The booklet will support midwives, health visitors and GPs giving information to anyone who is bottle feeding their baby.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 23 August 2012

This publication was withdrawn on 12 January 2016

The latest information for healthcare and childcare professionals is available on the Start4Life website.

Applies to England

Documents

Start4Life guide to bottle feeding

Unnumbered act paper

HTML

Order a copy

Start4Life guide to bottle feeding

PDF, 4.1 MB, 24 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email publications@dhsc.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

Important information on bottle feeding is provided in this Start4Life booklet. It provides advice on sterilising feeding bottles and equipment, preparing infant formula feeds, and gives easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations to help parents and carers bottle feed safely.

Produced by the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency, the booklet is also endorsed by UNICEF.

For breastfeeding advice read Off to the best start - important information about feeding your baby.

The NHS choices guide to infant formula

More on Start4Life

Published 23 August 2012