Your baby depends on you to change his diaper, bathe him, snuggle him, and feed him. While you may know how to do them all. There might be some questions you have about feeding your baby.

When you had your baby in the hospital, the nurse brought him to you, and told you what his feeding schedule was, right? Well, once you get home, you really want to stick with the feeding schedule. Most of the time, your baby should want to eat every 4 hours. However, once you are home, it is very easy to get the schedule messed up and confused.

While your baby may have a soft cry and uneasy squirm for a wet diaper, his cry for hunger is probably louder and a little angry. If your baby is crying, try and see if he is ready for a bottle.

The worst that can happen if he is not ready to eat, is he will spit it out, and continue to cry, but will want no part of the bottle. You can place the bottle back into the fridge, and heat it back up for later if you wish.

While trying to keep your baby on a feeding schedule may be difficult at times, you may also wonder if your baby is getting enough to eat. There is a very easy way to tell if your baby is getting full on the amount of formula you are giving him. Once you are done feeding your baby, and the bottle is empty, you take it away from him.

If your baby cries, this may be a sign that he is ready for the feeding amount to be increased about an ounce. If you take your baby’s bottle away after he is finished and he acts perfectly happy, you will know that the amount of formula that you are feeding your baby is enough.

There are many types of baby bottles in the market today; the traditional feeding bottles for babies are made of plastic and are quite inexpensive. However, there are also glass baby feeding bottles that are safer to use but much more pricey. You will also have to check on the types of teats that are appropriate for your baby’s age. The teat or the nipple of the baby bottle feeding controls the amount of milk that your baby gets. While there are teats that only let in a small amount of milk into your baby’s mouth, it is important for you to remember that it would still be more than what your baby gets from breastfeeding. Feeding bottles have to be washed and sterilized a lot since your baby would need about 8 feedings in a day. Additionally, you might be raring to go back to work and would need extra bottles to store your own milk in for your baby when you are at work. This means that you need to have a load of feeding bottles at home that are sturdy and can last for a long time.

Plastic feeding bottles for babies are safe for use, regardless of bad publicity that made a lot of parents want to switch to glass bottles. There have been reports that some trace chemicals in the manufacturing of plastic feeding bottles could be harmful to your growing baby. However, FDA has already released a statement that this is not true. The only disadvantage of plastic feeding bottles would be that they should be changed as soon as the plastic is already blurred. This is not to say that it becomes less safe but only because you will have a hard time reading the demarcations for ounces. Glass baby feeding bottles made a comeback right after the concerns on chemicals in plastic bottles surfaced. They are still a viable option though, if only to make you feel at ease with what you use to feed your baby. The only trouble is that because it is glass, it is much heavier and easier to break.