i could so with advise on baby sick please!

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Hi i was exclusivly breast feeding then the angel started losing lots of weight so HV so to add some bottles in has 2x 8oz of formula now but is really sick after it!!!
HV said to drop the bottles go back to breast feeding and add formula to her solids!!
Shes only 5mths but started early weaning on HV advise, has 3 meals a day now under HV orders!
Her advise seems so to change all the time!! don't know what to do!! Also still waking lots at night help!!! thanks

no not at all. iirc you can't under feed a BF baby (or over feed) but I might be wrong with that one.

lula i think your right. My hubby and i arnt both tall and thinish (well pre baby) but very skinny as kids!

doesn't sleep through yet. up couyple of times a night. when i was just breast feeding need to be latched all the time or entertained!! Is happyish now.

Worth remembering as well that some babies take up to a year to settle onto one line or another for growth.

its the sick after the formula that shocks me. The HV said her valve prob doesn't close properly. Thats why she said to put the formula powder in her food.

i'd deffo suggest trying a diff formula in that case which one are you using out of intrest?

sma white

formula powder in her food !

try switching back to the first formula, the gold one.....the white one can give LOs a tummy ache

i know i never knew you could put it in food!
She is a bit odd.

sorry do you mena put the powder in the food or make up the milk and then use that in the food (as that's how I read it) the later one I did for DS made up formula in food, but never the powder alone. quite odd.

J didn't agree with sma tbh, so we didn't use it (that was the gold one)

she said just mix the powder with the veg! odd but dd liked it . Its the blue top tin.

you shouldn;t put it in food..it is a milk powder....how odd

your HV has some strange ideas

you can mix made up formula with food, or to make porridge, but using the powder itself as a way to add bulk and calories to puree is odd

Ah, so she's wasn't losing lots of weight. What she was doing is not gaining the amount of weight that the HV has arbitrarily decided that she ought to be gaining. That's a very different story...

i know i have never heared of bulking out food like this, what do you think?

i'm glad you said that lulu I was thinking I was odd there! lol. surly you don't get as much in the way of calaries doing it that way? we either made porrige/ready brek/added to purees etc as a way of moistening it really)

also another thought is it only after the formula LO is sick? I only ask as J could never have the jared fruit thingy which was apple pear and banana I think the mix is - it literally went in one end and out the other (horrid memories of an explosive nappy, no wipes and a car park) anyhow if LO is sick after solids as well, besides from the fact she might not be ready, might be what she's having iycwim. also J coudln't have baby rice, or weetabix - unfortunatly thou that sort of thing you only learn when trying out the foods.

fine with solids and bm just formula. She did say just the powder not milk. I thought it was odd but just checked book.

mixed it with swede then yogurt 2day.

I hate growth charts with a passion. From my HV days I found they caused nothing but anxiety. If a baby is well, developing normally and his/her Mum/Dad have no concerns then any variation in the growth is probably normal. I've seen too many parents worried for no good reason by growth charts - and too many HVs who get in a tizz about normal growth and give crap advice.
My own HV got in a right state about my DS dropping from 98th centile to the 50th. The fact that this drop coincided with him beginning to crawl failed to enter her head - I stopped going to clinic in the end. At 4.5 he is still on 50th centile and doesn't budge from there.

aka= thanks for that. I think your right. I think i'm going to stay away. To let you know that she hated her meals with the powder in today so back to square one! cheers