Hi
hopefully I can get some advise as my doctors and health visitor don’t seem bothered and I am really struggling at the
moment!
I am a FTM and my baby is 15 days old. Started breastfeeding but got mastitis so gave up. Went straight into cow and gate powder formula using the prep machine and the ready to made bottles.
My baby has never pooed a lot, maybe once a day or every other day but the last week he was going every other day. But he was screaming in pain, legs scrunched up, bright red and you could feel him trying to poo/fart. Even after he pooed 5 mins later still screaming. Literally did not stop screaming and then was not sleeping at all during the day. I thought constipation but as his poos were soft and yellow we were told this is normal for babies and not constipated. I questioned colic or silent reflux. He isn’t a sicky baby but after feeding/winding a little bit comes out but more dribble but I think this is normal and not sick? He has hiccups many times a day and these pains stop him sleeping. Bizarrely the last week he sleeps ok at night, 2 hour then up for a feed/nappy change. He doesn’t eat loads, more just little and often and is putting on weight well and many wet nappies. So for the past week he has not slept at all during the day. Every time I get him to sleep a pain comes and he screams
I went to the doctor who said change to comfort milk but it takes a while to kick in. Before comfort milk I tried Infacol which I didn’t think made a difference.
Yeaterday afternoon I started on the cow and gate comfort milk and my HV said add colief. Well within a few hours he was back to normal. No screaming just a happy baby. Even passed a big poo which was more liquid and green but I thought it could happen with the comfort milk as designed to help constipation.
however about 9pm last night the crying and pains started except this time not as extreme. You can literally hear the gas in his belly and bubbling away and feel him trying to poo/fart. All last night he slept maybe 40 mins max ag a time. He moved so much in his next to he nearly turned over and was the other side and end of the cot. I think the discomfort and wriggling. So he is still in pain and constantly trying to poop/fart but nothing coming out. He is not happy again and something is still bothering him.
my question is: has cow and gate comfort ever made any other babies constipated or this gassy when it’s designed to help colic and constipation? I thought it would do the opposite
has colief ever done this to a baby?
im wondering whether I stop using colief and just use the comfort milk as maybe it’s too much at once creating too much gas or go back to my normal milk and use the colief?!
thank you!!