Hi All, I’m really hoping someone can offer some advice/help as we are in the trenches right now with my 9 week old daughter’s feeding.
My daughter was displaying symptoms of CMPA so was put onto Aptamil Pepti 1. The first couple of days on the milk was absolutely amazing she was like a different baby, but then we hit problems. She was using Lansinoh bottles with the XS teat as I tried a faster teat with her but it caused a lot of distress. After a couple of days on the Aptamil Pepti 1 she began collapsing her teat on her bottle. I then moved her onto a MAM bottle and size 0 teat, but she is chugging her milk so fast and she has so much spit up. I’ve tried different bottles, pace feeding, anything and everything to try and reduce the amount of spit up. She has infacol in her bottles as she does seem a bit more comfortable when I use that, but she’s been on this milk 10 days today and I am dreading every time I feed her because she becomes so distressed when winding, gulps her bottle down and chucks a load of it back up despite me trying to pace her. Plus she had a mucousy poo yesterday which did temporarily clear up last week and the smell was like the poos she was doing on the Kendamil. I am hesitant to try thickener or anything in her milk and upset her tummy any further, I feel like a nervous wreck!