Hi all after some advice regarding formula - BF hasn't worked out for us and sadly I didn't do enough research when pregnant and now finding myself feeling totally lost and overwhelmed!
My HV visited yesterday, my daughter is 4wks old and I mentioned she is still feeding very little and often, maybe every 2hrs or more about 2-3oz at a time, day and night. If I increase the quantity she can be sick and is prone to quite big spit ups - this means night times are difficult as I have to watch her like a hawk as it's so horrible if I wake up and discover she has been a bit sick and had to lay cold and wet in it :( so I don't get much sleep and she doesn't either with wanting lots of feeding.
Baby also chokes quite a lot when feeding - it's quite dramatic and has a noisy cough episode every now and again. The HV said this could all indicate silent reflux which also explains why she stops crying the minute she's held upright over your shoulder.
The HV advised to start giving infacol and switch from Aptamil stage one to cow and gate comfort. I've done this for a day and a half and have noticed baby is suddenly very windy and really really uncomfortable passing trumps, straining, crying and bright red. She is no longer bringing anything at all up but isn't really drinking more in one go or wanting feeding less often.
So my question is can comfort milk cause painful trumping? Her poop this morning was runny for the first time and she struggled to pass it.
I'd also like to know whether when you use a vented bottle like dr Browns, TT anti colic or the MAM anti colic bottles whether you should be mixing the formula in a plain bottle and transferring it after? I've been using the comfort milk in a vented TT bottle with a stage 2 teat I was told by a friend that comfort milk is thicker and not so good in stage 1 teats - is this right?
Also if anyone knows what actually causes wind, eg swallowing air when feeding etc that might help me help her!
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Trumping, comfort milk, vented bottles? Confused!
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buttershy · 17/08/2016 16:20
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