What is going wrong - bottle feeding help x

[Freyfreysmum]

DD is 5 weeks old.
From day one we have had nothing but problems with her, and compared to my other daughter now two, I am really struggling.
DD2 started life feeding from me, but we soon moved on to bottle feeding.
She feeds well for the first ounce, and then thrashes around, her face fills with terror, her legs shake, and you cannot get more milk into her until she has either cried herself to sleep and then wakes up, (and the cycle continues), or, until she calms down.

We have seen 4 doctors, and two health visitors, and because she has been putting on weight and checked for tongue tie etc etc they cannot find anything wrong.

She has had antacids, acid suppresents, etc, nothing helps.
She isnt lactose intolerent, and we have tried every teat and bottle under the sun.

My life is feed an ounce, then dd2 scream hysterically until she sleeps, wakes up feeds, and so the cycle continues.

Can anyone help?

dysphagia maybe?

posted this on your other thread too

She may be allergic to cows milk rather than lactose intolerant.

The two terms are used fairly interchangably but actually describe two very different conditions. An allergy to cows milk is an immune reposnse to the protein in the milk, but lactose intolerance is a lack of the enzyme which breaks down milk sugar (lactase). The latter is quite rare in babies. The former is quite common (2-7% of all babies).

The tests for the two conditions are different. If you have had a stool sample tested, this was a test for lactose intolerance, if you had a blood test/skin prick test, this was an allergy test.

Make sure you have had an allergy test and take it from there, depending on the results. If positive, there are hypoallergenic formulas you can try out.