Anti reflux milk (warning nappy picture)

[Shadow112]

Hello,

Our baby is 3 weeks old and often spits up during feeds, sometimes 1-2 hours after a feed. We do keep him upright for 30 minutes plus and do paced feeding. The health visitor suggested going onto anti reflux formula to help with it staying down. He has been on it for 12 hours and it has helped with the spit up, he still spits up small amount but it's very thick. After his fourth bottle he produced this dirty nappy which is something we have never seen.

Is this normal? Also I feel the preparation of this formula is difficult as you can't pre make and I'm following guidelines but still getting cheese like lumps at the bottom and I'm not sure he is getting enough as a good chunk is frothy then the bottom is so thick he misses that too.

How do you know if it's just mild reflux or more serious? He was gaining weight on his normal formula.

Hi, OP. We can see your thread didn't receive any replies when you posted it in AIBU yesterday, so we've moved it to our Infant Feeding board now - hope that helps.

What are your concerns exactly? Is the issue the consistency of the poop? What was it like before you switched formula? Anti-reflux formulas work by thickening up the milk to prevent it coming back up the throat and so it will lead to thicker poops than you might be used to. Both my DDs needed gaviscon for reflux and their poops were completely solid once they were established on it, in comparison to liquid and runny beforehand.