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Crying one hour after feeds

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tlw14 · 07/01/2025 05:26

Hi,

my little boy is just over six months old. He was weaned early due to never being a fan of milk and dropping two centile.
He currently has porridge/ weetabix for breakfast, a couple of melty wafers mid morning, a 7 month pouch for lunch and a couple of melty sticks mid afternoon. He eats everything and drinks water well.

he has good naps during the day and barely cries, such a good baby. I offer him a bottle of milk when he wakes from his afternoon nap, he sometimes drinks 3oz but mostly 1oz.
he literally will not drink anymore and if I try to force it he is sick.

At night- he has about 5oz of his bedtime bottle, wakes at around 11-12 and has another 5oz, and then again at 3/4 for another 4-5oz. He is so so so unsettled at night and wakes crying every hour. I’ve tried different milks, goat milks but nothing makes any difference.
what can I do?
I’m trying as I feel he needs the goodness in formula and don’t want him not getting enough. The screaming every hour at night is exhausting though, he arches his back also like he is in pain.
his stools are normal and there are no signs of an allergy

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
raspberrycordial · 07/01/2025 06:28

We had this with my son, he was having yoghurt at lunchtime and waking screaming an hour later. Swapped to lacto free yoghurts and it stopped. I kept him off lactose for 2 years and gradually reintroduced it, absolutely fine now and he's 12.

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