Aptimil or Aptimil Comfort

[MrsDramaQueen]

For the first few weeks my LO was on SMA Gold and sleeping really well but it gave her really bad colic. We swapped to Aptimil Comfort. This has helped her colic but she takes a long time to drink it (up to an hour) even though she's hungry and we have the variable teats. She also gets really bad wind. She constantly has wind and it really smells. She's also not sleeping as well at nights.

Is it worth trying her on normal Aptimil or should i stick with the comfort formula? She's been on it for just over a week now.

Thanks

 

[Eala]

It sounds like the teats could be too slow for her. Even with them being vari-flow, the comfort formula is thicker than normal formula. We had to use stage 3 teats for comfort, when she was on stage 2 teats normally. That she's taking so long to finish a bottle could be partly contributing to her wind, maybe?

I did find that Aptimil Comfort gave our LO very smelly trouser trumps, but this is normal.

You could try the normal formula and see how she gets on with it? For me, it was changing bottles rather than comfort formula that helped with my LO's wind. I really recommend Dr Brown's, they were a godsend for us. TT CTN Anti-Colic+ bottles (which are basically TT's version of Dr Browns) are very good as well, they are what we're using now.

 

[jenniferannex]

I used aptamil comfort and it took awhile for lilt to drink it, but still found vari flow tests were better than stage3.
The comfort milk helped her colic, the thing is Hun if you've just got her settled with the comfort milk I wouldn't move her to the normal one just yet, only because her colic could come back, this is just my opinion though. I swapped lily over to the normal one when she was 12 weeks old when I knew it was very unlikely for her to get colic again. But it's totally up to you but I prefers her taking a while to drink it than to her screaming at all hours in the night but just do what you think would be best, you could always change her back if it wasn't any better x

 

[littleblonde]

I had to use stage 3 teets with aptimal comfort. So it could be the teet that is making it slow. Kacey had stage 1 to start with but gave her comfort for her colic and it really helped