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It's pretty easy. Get a basic infant formula and distilled water. See how she handles it. If her tummy gives her trouble, you can get a sensitive formula. We had to switch to soy with J because he was having issues with spit up.

We combo fed and supplemented with Gerber Good Start Gentle early on. After he was over reflux at 5.5 months, we stepped up the lactose and changed to Similac Sensitive for a month, and then finally to Honest. DS was exclusively on formula by 9.5 months after I burned through my stash and seemed to enjoy the taste of Honest. The only thing about Honest is that they don't add DHA to the powdered formula - they want you to buy their DHA oil supplement and add it to each bottle. I did that for a while, but then once I ran out of the first bottle, I just didn't bother because he was already close to 1 year.

Just wanted to chime in that I went through this with my LO at 11 months, we both had the stomach flu and my supply definitely dropped, probably more so from her being sick and not nursing as much (and I wasn't about to pump while recovering from the stomach bug either!). I had to dip into my supply for a week or so but it went back to normal eventually as we both recovered.

Not trying to suggest you shouldn't supplement, but your body is still recovering so you might be fine.

You did awesome!!!!!

Any formula can work if she doesn't have sensitivities? Similac, Enfamil and Target Up&Up are all very popular.

Oh yeah, when we did Similac Sensitive, it was just a sample can I had. When I ran out, I got the Up&Up brand and I found it actually mixed a lot better than the real stuff and preferred it!

Also, we always added a few drops of gas drops to each bottle before we shook it up - the gas drops kill the bubbles and foam in a few seconds, so I never had to worry about excess gas or whatever. Probably overkill from my reflux mama period, but we did it until he was on milk.

@MrsBrewer: We prefer it for the bottles. It's room temperature which is more favorable to J. I'd say that it's a preference thing because we had Chicago tap water. Filtered, yes, but no tap water. I don't trust nursery water either.

This isn't what you asked, I recognize, but I was going to say something similar to @petitenoisette: I recently had a drop in supply & thought I was going to need to supplement, but have been eating oatmeal for breakfast several mornings each week, as well as making some energy bars w/ oats, flax seed & brewers yeast (+ yummy stuff like pb, honey & mini choc chips) and my supply has increased again. Just a thought, if you aren't sold on formula supplements. Maybe in addition to the fenugreek tea, this could help your supply recover.

@jetsa: I also worked 3 days a week and had trouble finding time at work to pump enough. Our nursing schedule was like yours too. It worked out fine. Lo got 3 formula bottles a week.

Now at 14 months we just weened, it wasn't my plan, but I am 14 weeks pregnant and had the stomach flu two weeks ago and never recovered supply. Lo would ask for more milk after we nursed for 30 minutes at bed time. Now he has 2 cow milk bottlse a day. It's working for us.