BF baby reacting to formula? Or something else

[BelinaTheChicken]

DS2 has been exclusively bf (and expressed milk) up until this weekend. I work three nights a week and express milk for DH to give him. Over the last week I have been trying to get DS2 into a bedtime routine, so am feeding him on and off all evening and don't have a chance to express properly.

Because of this on Friday night I was at work and there was only enough milk for The first two feeds and DH had to top him up with a bottle of formula, first one he's had. Took it no problems, and slept well after and seemed fine for the day, if a bit more windy. Then last night I went to work at 8 and got a phone call from a panicked DH at 9.30, with DS2 screaming in the background, proper stopping breathing type screams, which he had been doing for an hour and shown no signs of stopping, was refusing the bottle (not a big fan at best of times) and no amount of winding, rocking etc was helping. Had to come home and try to feed him to sleep. I'm the night he fed pretty much constantly and was really farty, like fully grown man after a curry night farts, and I changed 3 dirty nappies in the night. Does this sound like a reaction to the formula? Never had this problem with DS1, but I know that DH was on soy formula as a baby. I've got a shift on Tue night and I'm dreading leaving him again

Sorry about the essay!

Anyone? He's 4 months

It does sound like a reaction - circumstantial evidence, only, of course, but the circumstances are that he had never had formula before and when he did have formula his physical reaction was indicative of serious tummy discomfort.

Not sure what your solution is - apart from the obvious one of expressing more.

Babies do sometimes grow out of this intolerances - maybe give your HV a call to discuss tomorrow?

Have been expressing all day, and there is a breastfeeding 'cafe' with a counsellor on tue that I'm going to go to, but my HV doesn't really know much about bf. No la leche or anything where I am, and very low bf rates.

I'm only on duty 3 nights a week, and have a 3 hour course once a week, apart from that I can be with DS all the time. I'm going to see if work will let me come home on my break to feed DS, can take a break from midnight to 1.30, so that might help. Not sure what the rules about leaving work premises are though, as only two on duty

Belina, your employer has a legal duty to accommodate you breastfeeding, including rearranging your work patterns if necessary. This is especially the case if your baby has had a bad reaction to formula ... More info here - esp pages 3 and 4

Thanks boobmeister thats really interesting, though I'm never sure if these rules apply to me as I live in Jersey and we have slightly different laws. Spoke to MIL today and apparently DH was fine as soon as they put him on soy formula, so could try that, but going to leave poor DS to recover for a while. I'd rather just get enough milk out to feed him just on that, but been expressing all day and have only managed 4 ounces