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Colief infant drops- need I mix it in a bottle?

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Baenerys · 17/09/2025 21:03

Hey!

Long time reader, first time poster. I have just had my 4th baby, she is now 6 weeks, and this one is testing my parenting knowledge. First she had jaundice that required a trip to phototherapy and now she seems to have some digestive issues. She spits up almost all her feeds quite often (she’s breastfed) which was bad enough so I tried infant gaviscon. That just made the spit up thicker. So I went to the doctor a few days ago and got omeprezole and she’s been having that daily for 3 days now. No change and in fact she seems like she’s gotten worse. So now I’m trying the lactase drops. It says to mix it with a few tablespoons of milk but what I am out and about and can’t pump a bit to mix it with. So I figured if I feed a bit, pull out and add the drips into her mouth and then carry on feeding, is that not the same?

someone who’s got more experience with this, please help me! I’m losing my mind over what could be the matter with baby

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QuinoafromKew · 17/09/2025 21:12

i used to hand express a little onto a spoon then add the colief or if I knew we were going to be out hand express into a small sterile bottle and then add it in situ,
DD1 had awful colic and slept on a bean bag for a few weeks ( not advocating this as I'm sure like allowing her to fall asleep in her swing and lying on the floor underneath it did not make me parent of the year) Exhaustion makes you inventive/desperate and a bit deranged.
I always said if I had DD2 first and then had DD1 I would have been at the doctors 24/7 with DD1 to ask what was wrong with her ( all got better at 11 weeks).

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Baenerys · 18/09/2025 03:06

QuinoafromKew · 17/09/2025 21:12

i used to hand express a little onto a spoon then add the colief or if I knew we were going to be out hand express into a small sterile bottle and then add it in situ,
DD1 had awful colic and slept on a bean bag for a few weeks ( not advocating this as I'm sure like allowing her to fall asleep in her swing and lying on the floor underneath it did not make me parent of the year) Exhaustion makes you inventive/desperate and a bit deranged.
I always said if I had DD2 first and then had DD1 I would have been at the doctors 24/7 with DD1 to ask what was wrong with her ( all got better at 11 weeks).

The issue is that she keeps drinking me dry so I can’t get anything out by hand. I am also thinking of night feeds. Right now I just flop a boob out, she drinks and back to sleep because we co sleep but if I have to express fresh milk every time, ill have to wake fully and that will leave me knackered for driving my kids to school everyday which seems dangerous

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MittensForKittens123 · 20/09/2025 13:20

Similar issues here. I use the Hakka over night to get some spare milk, and make up that with the enzyme. I give it to her in a syringe, and if I’m going out take a syringe or 2 in a Tupperware box.

Have you tried weaning off it yet? When I tried she got constipation.

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Baenerys · 20/09/2025 16:29

MittensForKittens123 · 20/09/2025 13:20

Similar issues here. I use the Hakka over night to get some spare milk, and make up that with the enzyme. I give it to her in a syringe, and if I’m going out take a syringe or 2 in a Tupperware box.

Have you tried weaning off it yet? When I tried she got constipation.

No she’s only been on it a couple of days. I’ve been putting her on the breast and then when she’s sucking slipping the end of the bottle between her lips and doing 4 drops and it seems to be working.

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Vintagegoth · 20/09/2025 17:59

My two daughters were similar to this and I (eventually) found that cutting dairy and eggs out of my diet made a big improvement. Both girls had cows milk protein allergy and egg allergy and would puke up whole feeds and scream themselves blue. Good luck with your little one.

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Baenerys · 21/09/2025 09:36

Vintagegoth · 20/09/2025 17:59

My two daughters were similar to this and I (eventually) found that cutting dairy and eggs out of my diet made a big improvement. Both girls had cows milk protein allergy and egg allergy and would puke up whole feeds and scream themselves blue. Good luck with your little one.

Ah ok. She seems happier now I’m using the drops but yesterday and this morning she’s seemed grumpy and the only difference is I’ve started drinking caffeine again as I cut it out before

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123Carrotake · 22/09/2025 17:31

Vintagegoth · 20/09/2025 17:59

My two daughters were similar to this and I (eventually) found that cutting dairy and eggs out of my diet made a big improvement. Both girls had cows milk protein allergy and egg allergy and would puke up whole feeds and scream themselves blue. Good luck with your little one.

Yep same with mine. Fussiness, crying and reflux were the only symptoms (no eczema, blood in stool etc). GP fobbed me off with Gaviscon saying CMPA is rare in BF babies. But I cut dairy and soy completely and he was a changed baby within a week or 2.

When weaning, we confirmed his allergy, one teaspoon of yogurt sent him to hospital.

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