Can you recommend a baby milk?

[Ellaroo]

This is rather long and has involved other threads, so I will try to cut it short. Ds was on bm then Hipp Organic formula for the first six months and is sick all the time. He has a hospital appt. as GP thinks there is a mechanical problem that requires scans etc, but I wanted to try out intolerance issues too, so tried a lactose-free formula which improved things drastically, but ds is still being sick about 4 or five times a day, so GP says it will be the consistency of the milk, rather than it being lactose free that has caused the improvement. So I want to get him off the lactose-free as its made mainly of glucose syrup and put him on a normal formula, but I don't want to go back to Hipp Organic because he obviously found this difficult to digest. I want a milk that is quite thin and not too creamy and one that doesn't get curdy bits forming in it like Hipp Organic does. Any recommendations??? Thanks in advance.

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Ellaroo
had DD on Cow & Gate after trying Hipp and SMA.
started DS on Cow & Gate but found he was being sick quite often so now changed him to Farleys and things have improved. In my experience it takes about 1 week for little one's body to get used to new milk.

Hope this helps

sorry to hear about your woes i had the same thing with my ds1 and evenutally came to the conclusion (probably wrongly ) that he was lactose intolerant and had basically learnt to have a easy quick reflux reflex if you know what i mean, milk wise nothing made any difference, but then again i have since found out that there are prescription lactose free ones i think called nutrimigen and a soy one too!!! Have you asked your doctor or health visitor about these? How is he on with solids does he bring these up too?

I really do remember the nightmare of constantly changing clothes and washing clothes and getting used to predicting the reflex and grabbing at towels to try to catch it oh i do empathise, for my ds1 it stopped almost altogether with soy milk at age 1 but then he got eczma (sp???) so rice milk worked but food took a little while longer and he still has a quick reflex to vomit if he gets upset etc. etc hth

We used cow and gate too and ds1 was sick and it got lumps in it. Heres another vote for farleys, we have used the first and the follow on milk and ds2 has been fine and had no sickness from him at all.

I think SMA do a 'stay down' formula - you could try that (if you haven't already!)

Thanks for your advice. Yes, I had tried him on a lactose free (enfamil lactofree - a cow's milk based one as I'd heard that baby boys shouldn't have too much soya as it contains a lot of female hormones - don't know whether there is much research to back this up, but it worried me a bit). The doctor says lactose intolerance starts in the small bowel and with ds the milk doesn't seem to get that far until it starts causing problems, so he is sceptical about it being a lactose intolerance (despite the fact that his sick has gone down from about 30 vomits a day to between 1 and 5 - oh how delicious to have the odd day where he smells of baby rather than sick!). But anyway, he thinks it is the thinness of the enfamil rather than the lactose-free that has stopped him being sick so much...

Ellaroo, i hate to be controversial but IME doctors no s* about your baby what do you think?

i didnt mean about doctors i meant about your baby, lactose or no lactose problem?

Have to say 30 times sounds really severe, but in that case it must of been only small bits rather than whole or half feeds, how is he on solids? and how old is he now?

Yes, I do agree Sleeplessmumof2, but feel at such a loss and just desperately want him to stop being sick that I feel confused and don't know what to think, so in some ways was just pleased that the doctor thought there was an answer out there somewhere. No, it is never whole feeds, and never projectile. He is awful with solids and milk and it just seems to fall out of his mouth all day long (it bothers him when it's solids). But bizarrely, he is still managing to put on huge amounts of weight. I bought some Farleys today, my plan is to try this, then try a lactofree soya formula then if all else fails try the hugely expensive Nanny's goats milk, but I'm hoping it won't get that far. Thanks for your advice.