hi,my baby is 75 days old.am breast feeding her regularly.but giving her formula milk twice a day for weight gain as she has low birth weight. is it ok to give her formula milk twice? worried if its affects her health in future??

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Milk is very important for babies specially in the initial days of life breast milk is very important and should be given exclusively till 5-6  months of age .
formula milk should be given only as a substitute to breast milk if due to any reason it is not sufficient to fulfill the demand of the baby. according to the age different stage of formula milk are there like stage 1 till 6 months of age stage 2  from 6 months to 12 months and thereaftehr stage 3 .
after one year cows milk should be started and any kind of health drink powder in milk should be  used only after thge completion of two years of age .

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yes iam exclusively breastfeeding her but if she continuous takes feed my breast feels light having a doubt if she getting any milk or not.so for my satisfaction giving formula milk twice a day.is tat ok?

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hello actually if you are breast milk is sufficient then why do you want to opt for the formula feed  breast milk r is having all kind of hydration in it and kind of all nutritions in it as if the feeding mother take good in take of food and feed o baby exclusively