Bit of advise please ladies!

[Shinning_Star]

Ok, So I've not ff from day on before, always bf for first 6 weeks then moved on to formula. So this is all new to me, plus Georgina seems to be a lot more fussy than my previous two.

Ok so situe is, I give her 3 oz feeds, but then an hour or two later she's after another feed. If I give her any bigger than 3 oz first off she just throws it back up again. So today alone she's a feed first thing at six which was 3oz, then by 7.00 she had another 2oz, then another 2oz at nine then went to sleep until 11, had another 3oz, then by 1.30 another 2 oz then at 2.30 another 3 oz. Then a sleep until 4.30 then another 3 oz, then another 2 oz just a moment ago. This will continue but i'm wary of giving her a 3oz bottle every time for fear of her being sick, + we've tried one 4 oz bottle every day + without fail, she'll bring it all ack up again.

Also if she doesn't fall asleep within minutes of bottle she'll be awake for good 2-4 hrs until she's had more bottle.

Anyway, so basically is it just she needs little + often or is there something else we can do, we wind her mid feed, she's on infacol already? Ar what point do weup the feeds? How often sgld we be trying to up the feeds? Any ideas?

 

[Vickie]

It sounds like she is a little and often eater. A good rule of thumb on upping feeds is when they drain the bottle add another ounce, not sure how that will work with her since it sounds like she will eat it but than get sick

 

[Shinning_Star]

Yeah thats exactly what she does, drain the bottle no matter what and then just throw it up!

Man this third baby is hard work!

 

[kirmal12]

Sounds like she is a grazer, my LO was/is like this. My HV said he was acting like he is BF! He ate every 1-2 hours he now goes between 2.5-4 hours at 11 weeks. I would just go with her for a bit until she gets used to the formula, she will slowly be able to take more I'm sure.