Breast milk to formula -help!

[Dotty08]

Hey mama’s
I’ve been exclusively pumping for almost 6 months now as my little one has a heart defect and couldn’t breast feed.
We’ve just got out of icu after open heart surgery that went wrong and as much as I want to keep up pumping I just can’t. I’m exhausted. I do have quite the stash of milk in the freezer but I’m wanting to get a formula sorted for when it runs out and I’m still pumping but not as much as before.
I must add I have a VERY windy baby. Like grown man fart type wind. She used to find it really painful but of late has been fine. Until I tried formula.
So I tried SMA gold first the ready made one which was ok, she didn’t seem to love it but took a fair amount. Had some wind. Then I tried aptami again the ready made. which she seemed to prefer the taste.. but has been up for the last two nights every 40 minutes writhing around with wind. So I stopped the aptamil yesterday - she had around 700mls over two days. Does anyone know when the wind will stop and normal sleep resume? Like how long it takes for it to be out of her system? And any ideas on other formula? Would you go back to sma which although she was windier didn’t seem too bad or would you try another? If so what?
Gutted because I’d read out of the two aptamil was better for wind!
Thanks in advance for any help

Always used Aptamil and wouldn’t say we particularly suffered with wind. Baby always needed winding though after each bottle. Assuming you’ve done back rubs, bicycle legs etc. Could try gripe water? That’s meant to create one large bubble of gas that can then be exited! I didn’t know different formulas caused wind, always assumed it was the bottle drinking/air etc? I would say just pick a formula and then try to stick with it rather than changing. And just be mindful of winding for a few weeks whilst baby gets used to it.
Sorry if that wasn’t overly helpful!

Firstly, sorry to hear of your LOs surgery. You've done an amazing job pumping for 6 months!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What bottles are you using? I have been combi feeding for 8months now with a refluxy and windy baby, and she was MUCH worse on the Tommee Tippee bottles. We found Nuk bottles much more effective as well as paced feeding. We use Cow & Gate, as that was what we started using as a top up in NICU after birth, and haven't tried anything else so i cant comment on the formula but the bottles really can make a difference.