colief and breastfeeding

[trixymalixy]

has anyone got any tips on how to give a bf baby colief.

it seems a right faff to have to express before every feed.

I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that you can put it on your nipple before feeding, or is that a completely different product i am thinking about?

Hmm - my dd in 6.5 so I' am thinking back a while now - I used colief but she was bottlefed rather than breast. If I re call correctly it has to be in the milk for a good hour or so to break down the lactose - that's how it works - so just putting it on nipples would have no effect. Are you sure it's colief you're thinking of ?

My bf friend used infacol - she used to drop it in her dd's mouth before a bf.

bump!

It's for bottlefeeding, so you either express or try something else. Sorry.

i also use infacol, you dont mix it with anything and ds loves it

I used colief for DD who was BF and it was the only thing that worked. It was a bit of a faff but worth the trouble as she was really colicy and screamed the place down with it. Look at this thread here and I have explained how I used to use it. Also if I was at home would just express a tiny bit of breast milk onto a spoon, add drops and give it to her that way.

I used it for ds2 and the pharmacist advised me to put a drop on my nipple before feeding. It worked very well.

I can't see how it would work - it wouldn't have time to do its thing !

Unless there are two sorts of colief maybe ?

From the colief FAQ section on their website

How can you give Colief if breast-feeding?

Express a few teaspoons of milk into a sterilised container. Then add 4 drops of Colief Infant Drops and feed it back to the baby using a sterilised plastic spoon. Immediately start breastfeeding as normal.

Thanks, i knew somebody said they put it straight onto their nipples.

Can't see how that would be hugely different from mixing it with a tiny bit of expressed milk and then giving it straight away.

wags, how on earth do you express straight onto a spoon!?! If I try hand expressing it goes in all directions.

I used to express every few days so I had a couple of ounces in the fridge - then before a feed got it out, heated it and fed it with a little dropper - it was a FAFF! but it did seem to make a massive difference.