Reflux vs constipation

[Nat78]

Hey all.
My beautiful girl is 2 weeks old tomorrow and we changed her to reflux milk because with normal milk, she was projectile vomitting. While being on reflux milk, she's so constipated but stopped vomitting. I'm unsure what to do, she seems so unsettled with the reflux milk - I plan to call doctors tomorrow but has anyone been through this with a baby so young before? What can I do to help her? Been trying tummy massage and bicycle legs etc and not been helping... should I put her back on normal milk or should I keep up with reflux? She wasn't constipated on normal milk but worried about the sickness.

Congrats on your baby.

There’s no scientific evidence that reflux milk, hungry milk, comfort milk etc do anything of benefit to the baby. It’s all just marketing.

If probably move her back to normal formula and see about getting a feeding assessment (milk matters on Instagram might help)

possible reasons for vomiting could be (in no particular order)

over feeding, vomiting up the excess - try paced bottled feeding
reflux, likely accompanied with unsettled behaviour - again paced bottle feeding can help
tongue tie - being unable to properly latch onto the bottle, could cause both the above
CMPA, not that common and likely accompanied with other symptoms.

Hey. Thank you so much for your comment. I’m going to get a GP appointment as my niece is allergic to milk and egg so was worried that my little one is going down the same route. We’ve gone back onto normal milk so hopefully the constipation sorts itself out. Very helpful, thank you so much

My DD was bf but had very bad constipation for the first many weeks of her life. My husband became a tummy massage expert after getting training from the nurses in the hospital. My tip is that you have to press a lot harder than you might think to get things moving. Try the 'I love U' (look it up on YouTube) technique but really press your thumb in firmly to get things moving. He would do this at every nappy change, and then it would result suddenly in loads of gas and explosive poos 🙈🙈.