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Changing formula - have you done it and did it help?!!
Hi,
My little boy is just over 10 weeks old and has been formula fed on Cow and Gate since he was 2 and a half weeks old. Before that I was breastfeeding but gave up when I was readmitted to hospital with mastitis.
He was quite colicky to start with so we use the Dr Brown's bottles and gave him Infacol before each feed. This has helped get his wind up but for the last couple of weeks he has started being sick after a feed. Sometimes it will be over an hour after his feed and sometimes it will be straight after. I'm not too worried about the bit of milk that comes back up straight after a feed, but I am starting to worry about him being sick after an hour or so afterwards.
I mentioned to the health visitor about 2 weeks ago that I was thinking of changing his formula as he had started to be sick and she told me not to, so I didn't. He doesn't seem to like Infacol and I wondered if that was making him sick, so I stopped giving him that yesterday. It doesn't seem to have made much difference to his wind (he is still able to burp!) but he's still being sick.
So to those of you who have changed formula, what did you change from and what did you change to, and why did you change over? I'm just really not sure whether to carry on with the C&G stuff or to try changing to something else - I suppose I'm a bit worried that changing formula might upset him even more!
Thanks Ladies
Millie x
My little boy is just over 10 weeks old and has been formula fed on Cow and Gate since he was 2 and a half weeks old. Before that I was breastfeeding but gave up when I was readmitted to hospital with mastitis.
He was quite colicky to start with so we use the Dr Brown's bottles and gave him Infacol before each feed. This has helped get his wind up but for the last couple of weeks he has started being sick after a feed. Sometimes it will be over an hour after his feed and sometimes it will be straight after. I'm not too worried about the bit of milk that comes back up straight after a feed, but I am starting to worry about him being sick after an hour or so afterwards.
I mentioned to the health visitor about 2 weeks ago that I was thinking of changing his formula as he had started to be sick and she told me not to, so I didn't. He doesn't seem to like Infacol and I wondered if that was making him sick, so I stopped giving him that yesterday. It doesn't seem to have made much difference to his wind (he is still able to burp!) but he's still being sick.
So to those of you who have changed formula, what did you change from and what did you change to, and why did you change over? I'm just really not sure whether to carry on with the C&G stuff or to try changing to something else - I suppose I'm a bit worried that changing formula might upset him even more!
Thanks Ladies
Millie x
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