When to change from comfort formula back to stage 1??

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Hi, DD2 is on comfort forumla as she suffered very badly with colic and wind and possibly silent reflux. Since I started her on comfort forumla she has gotten better but I also took her to an osteopath and she is now 3 months old so not sure what sorted it or did she just grow out of it . Anyhow....comfort formula doesn't seem to be satisfying her as she isn't increasing the volume of feeds or stretching the time between her feeds (takes 4-5ozs every 4 hours). I am wondering about moving her back to stage 1 formula as the comfort is partially broken down and has potato starch as a filler and stage 1 is pure milk protein and might fill her up more. Any expereince of this anyone?
PS she is thriving so no worries on that score.

Hello, can't help about the issue of filling you daughter up (fwiw I think if she is putting on weight and thriving having 4-5oz every 4 hours then that might just be what she needs? No need to fill her up more?). Maybe leave her on the comfort milk for now if she is happy with it.

But what I would say, is make sure you get her back into normal formula by the time you wean her at 6mo...we just stuck with the comfort milk cos DS liked it and was happy, but then when we weaned him, he started doing 6 or 7 poos a day! Every day! I think the comfort milk ha a mild laxative effect which is useful when newborns are finding it hard to poo, but trust me: you do not want them on that milk when their colic has gone and they're eating 3 meals a day!

Thanks BotBoticelli, I suppose you are right about leaving her on it for the moment, to be honest I was wondering about changing her back for my sake rather than hers which is so so bad but am just so exhausted from doing the 2 feeds every night and hoped maybe I could reduce it to 1. Thats a great tip about comfort and weaning, will definetly be changing by then :)