Aptamil stage 1 to Cow and Gate first stage??

[itchycoo]

My lo is 19 days old... hes been on aptamil and since birth been feeding every 2 hours having around 4 oz each time. For a week now hes been so unhappy screaming and going stiff, the midwife told me its colic to try infacol and at this stage feed him when hes hungry. I took him to the docs last week after a terrible night who ore or less said the same but to try dentanox!
Yesterday my health visitor came, i answerred the door screaming baby and bottle in arms and just passed him to her and broke down lol..
ANYWAY!! She thinks hes not satisfied by aptamil and is over eating causing tummy pain so told me to switch to cow and gate first stage, from yesterdaty she wants me to add 10 or 15 minutes between each feed and get him up to 4 hour gaps! So so hard through the night trying to calm a screaming hungry child! Anyone had this problem???

 

[Carrie76]

Hi there,

19 days is very young to be going 4 hours between feeds, Isla is nearly 12 weeks and is only starting to go 4 hours between feeds, it's ok someone telling you to stretch it out but it's you has to deal with a screaming baby! I tried to do it with my son and it was awful, this time round Isla kind of fell into her own routine going 2 hourly then 3 then 4 and from what I've read on here most babies fall into their own feeding pattern. Is the Cow and Gate making any difference? Hopefully that will make him go even to 3 hours

 

[lovehearts]

hiya,

i switched from aptamil to cow & gate and it suits my LO much better. I found on aptamil that he fed allll the time which made himself sick as he was over eating. it was very distressing and we have had (and still have ) many feedinng problems.

with regard to the 4 hourly thing, i would say your lo is too young. Not many babies at 19days old feed 4 hourly. We let our LO settle in to his own eating pattern as he was so all over the place. At 4 months he was going 4 hourly between feeds and 12 hours overnight without a feed.

Its frustrating but you will get there
xx