My baby just won’t settle

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my daughter is 10 weeks old tomorrow, when I breastfed she was fine poo’d a few times a day - I then put her on kenedmil organic she couldn’t get on with that. So changed her to aptamil, still couldn’t settle on it.. changed her to aptamil comfort and she made a slight improvement but I feel like we’re going backwards again. She’ll have her bottle and is fine for about 20 minutes and then she just becomes uncomfortable and unsettled. The doctors say she’s just going through the fussy stage but it doesn’t feel like that. My gut tells me it’s more like a milk intolerance.. any mums been in the same situation?

CMPA shows up as a lot more than just fussiness. Blood in the poo, projectile vomiting, eczema etc.

10 weeks is still fussy stage. I remember we cancelled a weekend away we had booked for when my baby was 12 weeks on the dot as we thought the evening screaming would be done by then but it wasn't. He was still screaming his head off every evening unless we were bouncing him, carrying him, singing etc. I had a big yoga ball that was very helpful for this.

My baby had CMPA and I was breastfeeding. I had cut out all dairy and soy by 5-6 weeks (and I was very, very strict) and his symptoms above all went away in a couple.of weeks so I know that the fussiness was not due to CMPA.

Is there a reason you can’t just breastfeed if you’ve already done this and she was fine?

Given how many brands of milk she's changed, it's probably too late, she would have lost her supply by now. And I'm sure there was a reason she stopped in the first place.

My first (4 years ago) had CMPA, lots of symptoms - blood in stools, horrific rash, projectile vomiting, screaming during a feed and afterwards. Tried all formulas, eventually settled with Neocate from the GP. I have a 5 month old now too, who went through peak fussiness from 4 weeks old until about 13 weeks. Every single night, screaming and screaming. All that helped was a dark room, white noise and swaddle with lots of cuddling whilst my partner sorted our 4 year old. Hang in there, it will get better 💘

I had her via emergency c section, I caught an infection afterwards and spent 2 days in hospital - luckily by then I had expressed quite abit and froze it. But given how long I was there I had to introduce formula as my breast milk had basically dried up when I came out

I had her via emergency c section, I caught an infection afterwards and spent 2 days in hospital - luckily by then I had expressed quite abit and froze it. But given how long I was there I had to introduce formula as my breast milk had basically dried up when I came out

I disagree that you have to see symptoms like eczema and vomiting for it to be CMPA. I have it and suffer with neither of those symptoms.

There are two types of allergy. There’s IGE which gives severe symptoms straightaway and then there’s non-IGE.

I think from what you’ve posted that it could be non-IGE CMPA.

Have a read of this from Allergy UK

Reflux maybe try infant gaviscon. ?

How long did you breastfeed for? When did this start?

Is she taking on a lot of gas with the bottle?

2nd comment, quicker than I expected

Not a question I would ask to be honest. She might have wanted to breast feed and couldn't and be really upset by this question

Not always as simple as "can't you just breastfeed"

Also bf isn't for everyone and those who choose not to shouldn't be judged

Why did you stop breastfeeding? Sounds like that was working

It may not be the type of milk at all, a good cranial osteopath could definitely help! (This is coming from a mum of a boy with dairy intolerance and finally outgrown by 5 and a 12 week baby girl with similar issues which have been largely sorted by our cranial osteopath!

If you're in the Gloucestershire area I'd happily recommend ours!

CMPA is so difficult and there is a lot of scepticism (and frankly full on gaslighting) about how rare it is. If I were you I’d ask for a special formula to see if that helps. It might just be fussiness but trust your gut.

Agree. I think it affects around 1 in 10 babies.