Formula feeding question. Help. Aptamil or SMA? Please help!

[Rebecca1608]

My girls are almost a month old and were born at 35 weeks. They spent 10 days in SCBU and i specifically said that i wanted them to have Aptamil. They only had SMA or cow and gate. So i took in lots of my own but on their own accord they put my girls on SMA. They were born 4lbs 5 and 4lbs 6 and now weigh a brilliant 6lbs however they take 3.5oz or just under every feed and where as they keep it down they sometimes look uncomfortable. (Not wind) as i spend lots of time making sure they are winded and sometimes they even wind themselves but i've noticed they hold their tummies in sometimes and wince and sometimes constipated. I spent 3 hours with my girl between 12am and 3am this morning as she was unsettled and i am contemplating going back to the Aptamil but is there a difference? I'm a first time mum and just wanna get it right!

Thankyou. Something has gotta work. I'll get there

Aptimel made my dd1 so constipated and sick. We took her off it at 7 weeks and put her on hipp organic and it was so much better.

Neither of my girls got on with tommee tippee bottles either as they gave them terrible wind. I moved dd2 onto mam anti colic bottles at 8 weeks and they're so much better. She doesn't take in anywhere near as much air now.

I was giving ds3 SMA (I used SMA with my first two) but he started getting very smelly dark green poo and stopped pooing 2-3 times a day and only going every 3 days.
I switched to aptamil and within 2 days his poos were yellow again and he was doing at least one a day and a lot happier.
Might be a coincidence who knows. I've heard somewhere that SMA is quite rich, however it was fine for my first two.

I've bought a tub of SMA easy digest today which seems a little lighter and changed from Tommee to Dr Brown. The girls are in their baskets asleep and seem quite relaxed. Maybe because they were hungry after waiting longer for a feed due to me walking home from the shops with them in the pram or maybe.... fingers crossed they are more comfortable. I really hope so! I'm trying everything and trying to steer clear from infacol etc.