Formula advice please

[mummyofsoontobe3]

Good morning

I have a 5 and a half week old baby boy who was 2 weeks early.

He was struggling bad with wind and having a dirty nappy so I put him onto cow and gate colic and constipation instead of their first milk.

However he them became unsatisfied and started to feed a lot downing 4oz bottles then wanting more 2 hours later and just generally a grizzly baby

I decided to try him again on the first milk and he was great at first even got a little smile.

Now he's bringing his feed up a lot and been screaming for the past hour.

Any advice shall I go back to the colic and constipation?

Ps he also has dentinox drops

Thanks

I think the device is not to switch them around too much, just to give their tummies time to get used to their milk?? Have you tired other colic remedies too? I found that only infacol worked for both of my little ones.

Hope your little of is feeling better soon xx

Thankyou for your reply.
I did think that but now don't know whether to persist with this or switch back and stick with the colic milk.

Yes tried infacol that didn't work for him bless him.

Thankyou xx

Stick with the first milk and try from infacol.

Which bottles are you using at the minute? My DD never got on with tomme tippee bottles having a lot of the symptoms you’re describing, as soon as I switches to MAM bottles she was fine

Thankyou

We are using tommee tippee and avent.

He's been awake since 3.45 now totally unlike him. Xx

Same as coffeekittens. We didnt like the tomee tippee bottles and are now using pigeon bottles....much better.

Thankyou will try different bottles. Xx

I find Hipp organic very gentle on tummies.

We fed our DD on hungry baby (she was HUGE and normal milk wouldn't satisfy her at all) so couldn't really change to any colic milk.

We used infacol and Tommie tippee colic bottles, the bottles worked wonders!

Thank you I'll buy some of those today. Feel clueless. My last baby slept perfect and through the night from 7 weeks xx

7 weeks is unusual for sleeping through though so I think you have unreasonable expectations. Feeding every 2-3 hours is also normal for that age group. Which milk was he more happy/settled with? Use that

Yeah I was gonna say too that I thought it was to be expected of babies to only drink little and often at that age anyway?

I think you're both missing the point of the post it's not him waking or wanting more it's how grizzly is but thanks for the advice anyway. I only mentioned my daughter because they are both so different.

Oh sorry my response was to the bit about;

started to feed a lot downing 4oz bottles then wanting more 2 hours later

Always found my DS drank about that anyway but did tend to drink more and become more grizzly around growth spurt and mental developmental leaps

(Fyi we did try our DS on the hungry baby for a bit but found it made no difference to him so just stuck to the cheaper regular stuff)

Could it be reflux causing the grizzling and vomiting? Sounds similar to my dd who fed more frequently for comfort I think.

Thankyou I just thought 4oz every 2 hours was a lot and probably overfeeding causing him to vomit.

I'm also starting to think it's reflux too I'm going to get him in with the doctor.

Thanks for everyone's advice.

X

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