Hi everyone,
I'm having such a stressful time with my four week old baby. We've been desperately trying to breastfeed since he was born, but we keep coming into challenges and it's unbearably painful. We've seen multiple lactation consultants, had his tongue tie fixed, tried to express as much milk as possible to bottle feed him. However we've still had to top up about 50% with Hipp organic formula since day 5, and even so he's struggling with weight gain.
I'm going to express as much milk as possible to feed him, but I can't keep seeing him struggling to put on weight for the sake of my desire to breastfeed, so we're looking to move to basically completely formula fed.
The problem is that he's been showing most of the symptoms of CMPA. He really does seem in such pain every single moment he's awake. It's awful to see. I really want to try a EHF formula as I've seen on the NICE guidelines that this is the first line of treatment. The problem is that I've recently moved to a new area and went to register with my new GP today - they told me they need a whole week (!) to process my registration, and only then will they even entertain the idea of me making an appointment. Obviously this will take me until after christmas! I can't bare to see my baby in pain without trying to do something to help.
I've found that I can buy Aptamil Pepti 1 from online chemists - would this be a bad idea to give my baby this formula without the "supervision of a doctor" as it says on the website? I just can't bare to wait without even trying anything, I can cope with the sickness and the endless diarrhoea, but I just can't bare to see him writhing in pain all day every day for much longer.