feeding issues with premie baby

[clopster]

Hi,

I was wondering whether anyone had advice on feeding issues with my daughter.
Shes a prem baby born at 32 weeks and is now 3.5 months corrected age or 5.5 months actual age. She has bad reflux and is on gaviscon, domperidone and ranitidine to help but is still a sicky baby. She's also still really windy with feeds and falling asleep due to wind during a feed. She screams with colic which I think might be due to constipation - we give her movicol as she chokes on lactulose. Shes on Neocate formula which is dairy and soy free due to allergy. We use infacol at every feed too.

I thicken her milk to help with reflux and on consultants advice have started weaning her in the last few days. Feeds are a struggle at times as she either vomits alot back, falls asleep due to wind, or screams with tummy pain! Shes putting on weight so the docs are not that concerned but any advice would be much appreciated!

Is her windiness and colic Normal at this age?

Cheers Holly

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

I don't know about normal, but it isn't unusual. I would re-post this in the Feeding topic, you will get lots of knowledgeable responses!

[clopster]

Thanks I'll do that!

:)

[scrambled]

We found that Infacol made reflux worse with our twins, i googled it and found that I wasn't imagaining it! We also used Dr Browns bottles which were brilliant. Windiness and colic should wear off soon, as she grows. its awful though, it feels like it will never end. Tge twins stopped about 5 months actual, 3 ish months corrected, but they are still on gaviscon .

[MrPants]

We had our premmie daughter in January. She was born at 29 weeks. She was a nightmare to feed to begin with - all the other premmie babies born at the same time really got the hang of bottle feeding but not ours. She had a bit of trouble with reflux but, by far the biggest problem was colic. We were giving Infacol with every feed but it wasn't helping. Eventually we tried the Dr. Brown's bottles and haven't looked back. Within two days of switching bottles we had no more colic and, once that was under control everything else just fell into place. After about a week we stopped the Infacol and haven't used anything else since then.

AFAIC those Dr. Browns bottles are worth their weight in gold.

[bishboschone]

Clopster I'm not sure if you will see this but if you do pm me. My ds is the same and we found domperidone was the problem.

[featherbag]

Another fan of Dr Brown here, my ds was a 32 weeker and suffered very badly with colic. We were using the Tommy Tippee bottles following breastfeeding failing spectacularly, but he seemed to fight with the teats. I used to dread feeding him tbh (especially as I was am still very resentful about bf not working out), it would take ages, be a real struggle and often end with him screaming for hours. With the new hideously expensive but worth every penny bottles we've even been able to stop the Infacol, and there's no mess, no struggle, no colic and no screaming! The first night we used them he slept 6.5 hours, I felt like I'd won the lottery!