Changing milk

[sw2129]

My Lo is currently on hipp organic milk and for the past 2 weeks his feeding seems a bit messed up. He can take 3oz of milk fine but as soon as he wants more, after about 30 mins he throws most of it up. He seems to be hungry all the time but cant keep it down!! We have thought about changing him to heinz farleys milk as they have a hungry baby milk and i was wondering do i need to tell my HV first. I have tried calling but get no answer.

 

[dom85]

You dont need to get permission or anything from your HV to change your LO's milk.

However, I think that hungry baby milk probably isnt the answer. Your LO might seem hungry a lot because he's not keeping it down, even with hungry baby, if he doesn't keep it down he'll still be hungry and hungry baby milk is harder to digest so may upset his stomach more.

I had the same dilemma with Brady at around the same age because he was/is a very sicky baby. A lot of the problem was that he was taking in too much air which was getting trapped so the milk just came back up. I changed to Dr Browns bottles and do various exercises with him in the morning and evening to get the wind out.

I did change his formula, originally we were on SMA, then tried Aptamil, Aptamil Comfort and finally settled on Cow and Gate which agrees with him much better.

You should be aware as well that hungry baby milk can make them constipated because its harder to digest.

 

[Eala]

I would try another stage 1 milk before moving to a hungry baby milk. Our baby didn't get on with a few milks. SMA made her sick. We found HiPP awful, it just didn't seem to mix well, and always clung to the pipettes on the Dr Brown bottles (like cottage cheese, was gross!). She was fine on Aptimil for a while, then started getting very constipated. We finally tried Cow and Gate, and she's been fine ever since

Sometimes it's just a matter of finding what suits your baby best. Perhaps get a couple of cartons of other milks (they're about 50p each for 200ml) and see how your baby gets on? Rather than forking out for a big tub of powder that you then may not use.

 

[sw2129]

Thanks for replying!!

We got the heinz farleys milk stage 1 this morning and he has been great on it!! He took to it straight away and has been taking 5 oz and keeping it down.

Eala - thats what was happening with us, the milk didnt mix well at all, we were going through loads because we would have to redo bottles and i guess that could have caused this!

He seems much happier now and i hope it continues

 

[Jellybean2009]

he might have a sensitive tummy my son had this but instead of being sick he just point blankly refused his feeds once he was on comfort milk he was much much better
hope this helps

 

[Jellybean2009]

he might have a sensitive tummy my son had this but instead of being sick he just point blankly refused his feeds once he was on comfort milk he was much much better
hope this helps

 

[Jellybean2009]

he might have a sensitive tummy my son had this but instead of being sick he just point blankly refused his feeds once he was on comfort milk he was much much better
hope this helps