Hello,
I just wanted to write our personal experience with Kendamil, as all I seemed to find online was positive baby feeding reviews and it made our feeding journey a negative one as I couldn’t understand how everyone had such positive experiences but we weren’t. Baby is 5 weeks now, and for me here were some of the signs kendamil wasn’t agreeing with our new born:
•The green watery poo - she was going nearly 4 days without a poo and when she did do one it was green, watery and the smell was rancid, very fishy, and given it was so watery she would be heartbroken trying to pass the stool and straining excessively. I know Kendamil do say the green watery poo is normal but for her it simply wasn’t.
•Excessive pumping - She was always passing gas, sometimes she would pass it and be fine but the majority of the time the gas would cause her discomfort, she would go red in the face and would seem really uncomfortable or just be unable to settle, wriggling and bringing knees up to chest or she would be sound asleep and then all of a sudden let out a high pitched cry from nowhere. Just like with the poo, the smell was awful!
•Vomiting - She would 9/10 bring up some milk after a feed, whether she was sat up or laying down and when the milk did come up it was thick like curdled milk, it also smelled like the milk had been sat there for years, strong sour milk smell.
• Grunting while feeding - she would grunt and wriggle about while feeding, although this wasn’t at every feed, some feeds she would seem relaxed but the majority of them she just was unsettled.
• unable to self soothe - I don’t mean cry it out I mean as she was wanting to go to sleep we would have to rock her to sleep, I actually thought this was just her fighting sleep as she wouldn’t settle unless we were cuddling her and rocking her to go over.
• getting more restless as the day went on.
• thick white coating on tongue.
My point is every baby is different, and not all milks agree with all babies, I’m not trying to say kendamil isn’t a good milk, clearly it is with the reviews you see but unfortunately it just didn’t agree with our baby, and reading all these good reviews was causing me distress as I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t working for us, I’ve now put her on cow and gate, she has been on it 3 days now and although it’s still early days I have seen a reduction in these symptoms. Passing gas has dramatically decreased, and when she does they’re not smelly at all, even when winding during a feed the wind she brings up has reduced, she no longer grunts while feeding, she will happily lay on her mat or Moses basket and take in the world around her and will drift off if she’s tired, no fighting it, she would never do this before hand, she always had to be held and rocked. I can’t comment on the poo side of things as she hasn’t done one just yet. She will still be sick slightly when layed back down but very little and it doesn’t smell at all and is more like a water with white bits in. And the white coating on her tongue has gone completely.