is infacol making my baby puke?

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We started baby on infacol on Saturday, we thought it'd help her fussiness in the evenings. She has been very calm on the last three evenings which is great but she has vomited last night and twice today, maybe a whole feed's worth (or perhaps or just looks that way!). Before this she had only been sick twice ever. Baby is 8 weeks old and exclusively breastfed. Is there a connection between Infacol and her puking or is it just coincidence?

I think Infacol can make the burps a bit violent and lead to a bit of milk coming up, but if you think a whole feed is being brought up your baby may be suffering from reflux. My dd was fussy just as you describe in the evenings and always vomiting even hours after being fed. The HV and gp just said she was possetting but I persisted

We'd considered reflux, maybe I should phone and ask my HV. She writhes around constantly while feeding at the mo, I thought Infacol would resolve that (presumed she had wind), but no.

Infacol did this to my DD. Her symptoms weren't v severe and I was never sure it worked for us (I know it does for others) so used a bit of gripe water occasionally instead.

Might try gripe water. It's all guess work at ths stage isn't it, wish she could tell me what hurts!

Just to add that I remember my LO being a bit fussy in the evenings and I think a lot of babies this age are like that. What helped for us was actually putting her to sleep much earlier as I realise now she was over-tired. One night when she was v fussy I put her down at around 18.15 and thought to myself I'm going to be up at 3am here. Wasn't at all - she went 12 hrs (with feeds obviously but going straight back to sleep) and has been going to bed around that time ever since.

Might not be the case for you but thought I'd throw that in the mix :)

Thank you Lois - I know babies often have this fussiness, I think we'll have to ride it out. No Infacol today and also no puking! When did your LO grow out of it?

Yayyy to no puking!! I would say it stopped about 10 but definitely by 12 weeks (she's almost 18 wks now). I know everyone will tell you this and you read it all the time but from now to 12 wks, you'll see huge changes and things start clicking into place, or I found this anyway. They start getting their own routine a bit, don't seem nearly as fragile, the social smiles etc. and things got loads easier and more fun. Sounds like you're doing really well anyway :)

YES infacol did this to my DS. As another poster suggests, made the burps so violent he brought up most of a feed. Stopped the infacol and way less vomiting.

OP how old is your baby? DS' vomiting rapidly decreased at about 7 weeks.

She's only really vomited a lot with the Infacol, a couple of random times before but never so close together. She's 8 weeks now.

Infacol has made both my DD's very vomitty in the past.