Formula Feeds: RCN guidance for nurses caring for infants and mothers

Published by the Royal College of Nursing, October 2016

With contributions by Janet Warren and Katherine Sykes

This new edition of the RCN’s Guidance provides an overview of formula feeding to enable health professionals to support mothers who, for whatever reason, have made that choice of feeding. It provides information to enable safe formula feeding, whether in hospital or community settings, and details the different types of standard formula, and formula adapted for minor gastro conditions, that are widely available in the UK. The scope of the guidance is restricted to formula feeds suitable during the first year of life.