4 day old baby - bottle feeding help

[Cherry85]

If anyone can offer advice it would be awesome as I'm a new parent stressing in the middle of the night 🙈

Or baby boy was born via section on Wednesday and we got home yesterday. We had always planned on bottle feeding and were given the premade aptamil bottles with sterilised teets in the hospital and continued with these at home until we ran out earlier today.

Rather than switch to the powdered aptamil straight away we carried on with larger premade bottles of aptamil but decanting them into tommee tippee bottles.

I noticed three things today:

• he has been downing his bottles much faster in the new tommee tippee bottles
• he has been wanting fed more often and has had a lot more milk than yesterday. Probably taking 60ml every 2.5hr when he took 40 every 3-4 hours yesterday
• he has thrown up a lot today compared to yesterday.

I have only changed two things:

• the bottles have changed from the 70ml aptamil with teets to the tommee tippee size 1 bottles and teets.
• the formula has changed from the 70ml stage 1 aptimal to the larger aptimal bottle but the formula should be the same.

Can anyone advise what I'm doing wrong? He did so well the past few days and today just seems to be struggling with something but I'm not sure what part.

Thanks in advance

It could be that the teats are faster flowing so he is getting the milk quicker. It’s takes a while for the stomach to tell the brain it is full so he may be over eating hence throwing up. Might be worth looking for slow flow teats or slowing him down when feeding by pausing every so often, maybe wind and then offer the bottle again? Not sure if any of that will help but I’m sure I read something similar not that long ago

Have the tests got bigger holes? This could be why he is downing the milk so quickly and then being sick. I am sure someone will be allong with some good suggestions. Congratulations on your new baby x

my daughter spat up all the time as a baby i found as time went on she spat up more than when she was first born.But it became the norm a certain amount she would spit up.I have also found tommee tippee bottles to be the best both my daughters seem to favor them and drink better out of them.I also noticed my daughter spat up less if the milk was fairly warm.

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My first daughter spat up all the time until weaning my second daughter hardly spits up.Its just luck with babys you could also try another formula but quite frankly with my first daughter all formula had the same effect.When they are 4 weeks you can give infacol which can also help with the spitting up and discomfort

This happened to us - get slow flow teats. We ended up getting the MAM size 0 teats and she’s still on them. They flow really slow.

If he keeps throwing up consider reflux and spreak to your health visitor. Keep him upright after feeding and then look into infant gaviscon, that’s what we did.

Good luck - I’ve been in exactly your position!

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Hi @Cherry85

I used the aptimal ready made bottles when I got home after my section. And like you found that the pre made bottles a lot easier in the early days. We used the mam bottles and had no issues with spit up after a feed. I brought a prep machine which came with a bottle and thought I would give it a go - it was awful! Lots of air milk too fast que baby taking more but bringing lots up.

As mentioned above I would try a different bottle - mam are great as you can sterilise in the microwave. Although if you look at the teet on the little bottles you can get these as a bottle too (can’t remember the brand)

I have also found that the pre mixed formula flows quicker than the powder.

Make sure you are doing paced feeding.

Hi, we had the same issue and have changed to the mam bottles. The tommee tippee ones were just too fast for our little girl even with the smallest teats.

The throwing up could very well be caused by wind due to the teat flow being too fast. My DS is 15 weeks now and has always only be sick when there's wind trapped in the depths of his tummy. We also moved away from Tommee tippee bottles when he was a week old and moved to Philips Avent. As for how often and how much he's taking...don't worry this can change on the daily but it sounds like they're a great little eater and will be packing on those ozs.