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7 week old feeding advice

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Pinkhan135 · 13/12/2020 12:49

My 7 week is really struggling with her feeding for the last few weeks. She has been on kendamil and I have just recently changed her to come and gate comfort for colic and constipation.
The GP recently prescribed gaviscon for reflux however this was giving her constipation and causing her distress so lactulose was then prescribed. The lactulose was making her tummy worse though and I'd know to cause tummy ache. So it was then discussed with the GP to stop the gaviscon and the lactulose and see how she goes, basically taking it back to basics. She's been pooing since we made this decision.
However on some of her feeds she gets so upset, won't take the bottle, crying in pain with her tummy, lots of tummy gurgling and noises and she takes I'm too much air. We have her on the dr brown bottles. Then it takes a good hour or two to get the wind out and settle her.
Does anyone have any advice? Thank you

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Vicky1989x · 13/12/2020 13:52

My 7 month old still has reflux and was exactly the same. She is on SMA and gaviscon, but I also tried Kendamil and comfort milks and nothing helped. The only thing that helped her was going up a teat size, which was bizarre but she immediately stopped fussing on the bottle, started drinking more and had less trapped wind. She was still windy as hell but it didn’t get ‘trapped’.

Perhaps try that? It might take her a few days to get used to a faster teat though.

Pinkhan135 · 13/12/2020 14:17

Yeah I agree about the test so we've now gone up onto teat 2 so will try that! Thank you

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