My little girl turned one a few weeks ago. She's been on formula since about a week old as I struggled with breastfeeding. She did have some issues, spitting up a lot, trapped wind, but never enough for the health visitor to think it was a milk allergy. Then by 4/5 months she was absolutely fine.
After she turned one we switched her to whole milk. For a few days we mixed with formula with no issues, then gave her whole milk on it's own. She was ok for a couple of days. She did have a bad cold and a cough at the time so I didn't make the connection at first, but on about day 3 she threw up after her bedtime bottle. She was coughing a lot though and I thought it was the coughing that was making her sick. We went to the doctors about the cough but they said it was just viral.
She's been sick multiple times over the last few weeks, it's always late at night and it's all like curdled milk. I am so annoyed with myself for not thinking it could be the milk, but I thought if she was OK on formula she can't be allergic to cows milk. Friends with babies who have had cows milk allergies needed special formula.
But the more I thought about it the more I thought it was connected. She's been waking up at night more regularly (again I put this down to being generally unwell) and I realised the nights she's been sick are always when she's waking up and having a second bottle to help get her back to sleep. It's like her tummy can't handle it.
I realised this on christmas eve, obviously couldn't call the health visitor or anyone so wasn't sure what to do. I didn't want to start messing around with soy milk etc when I don't really know enough about it, so I thought I'd just try her back on formula.
Since switching back to formula, she's like a different child. No vomiting and her cold symptoms have completely disappeared. It seems too unlikely to be a coincidence when she's had a runny nose for weeks. So now I'm wondering if it's all because she's allergic to milk.
But is that even possible when she's fine with regular formula?