Do you persevere with the virtual (that's what it says on the tin) breastmilk?

[AutumnLeaves]

What if you would have like to have breastfed, but decided it wasn't working for you.

So then you put baby on a formula milk, baby is happy, feeding well putting on steady weight. But then you decide to change the milk because you've been recommended another brand that is vitually the same as breastmilk, so they say.

You try it, baby is not happy, being sick, having runny poos, not settled. Do you go back to the 1st formula brand? Or do you persevere with the virtual breastmilk?

There are no formulas on sale in the UK with probiotics in them - the ingredients are prebiotics, and these are there to alter the 'environment' of the gut, and as a result, poos are softer. In some babies, this goes too far as the poos are very runny . I agree with Beenleigh - this is a marketing tool, as it is the one thing mothers can see, when they change their babies' milk. You can be sure that if any new ingredient turned poo blue, or red, or turned it into rabbit droppings, it would not be used, even if it was brilliantly health-giving

The prebiotics are real, and they do have a real effect on the gut - but the jury ((ie research) is not convinced that this has any lasting benefit to the baby's health, and in some parts of the world, they are cautious enough about them to withhold permission for their sale.

Was in Waitrose this morning and noticed that Aptamil First says on the box "Best Infant Milk"
Is that allowed?

yet again, attention is drawn to my limited knowledge of all things milk related!
Off to do pre-biotic research!!

Wow . Just looking back in on this thread after being away this week. Sorry to arrive in mid convos.

Just thought I would let you know what SIL has decided. She's popping the little one back onto his origional mix. All is content, and appears to be doing well. Thanks to all for their advice and opinions.

I guess you are right Beenleigh, but the thing is that whilst formula is in the hands of business then if anything is done to improve it in any way then it will also have been done to improve sales (even if it is beneficial),that is the nature of business, so yes it will be a 'cynical' move. It is maddening, because something as important as formula should be free from the influences of market forces, and should probably (in the same way that medicines should ) be owned by a separate international body.