Colief advice? Night feeds!

[SmileyKez]

HV has advised us to use Colief as we think LO has colic, just after some advice from someone who has used it!

How did you/do you prepare your night feeds? LO has no pattern and wakes when hungry, at which point he screams till he gets his food, he has zero patience! At the minute im doing night feeds with cooked water (another story, don't judge) but now I'm going to have to prepare them in accordance with the Colief, but I just wondered what the easiest and quickest way to do it it!

 

[Dawnlouise30]

we used colief for about two weeks and if memory serves me right you can add it to the formula and store in the fridge if the feed will be used after 4 hours. so we used to make the feeds before we went to bed knowing that it would be more than 4 hours till his next feeds (we added the drops to the feed when we made them). i think that is how we did it.
we found colief helped but someone also suggested to try comfort milk which we did when we ran out of colief (since it is very expensive for colief and we could not get it on prescription) LO was great on comfort milk and no longer required the colief or the infacol.

 

[shellideaks]

Same as PP. DD doesn't have night feeds now but when she did I'd make 2 bottles fresh. Add 2 drops of colief to the milk then rapid cool and put at the back of the fridge, whack it in the microwave when she wanted a bottle. Use after 4 hours but within 12 hours

 

[_Nell]

we just followed the directions and made LO wait, we did the 'coleif trial' as it says on the box (one week?) i wanted to do it 100% properly for the trial and likely would have cut corners therafter with trial and error had it worked......as it was we did the trial for 2 weeks and saw no improvement so ditched it.

good luck with it, it works for some but not others

 

[Sparrow85]

I just warmed the bottle up as normal and then put 4 drops of colief in. I don't think my LO had colic at all, but he was a little unsettled at times and I do think it helped.

 

[cbass929]

I make sure I have a couple bottles I. Te frig to get through the nights feeds, so when I make the bottles I add colief to the bottles then. But tbh it didn't work alone for my lo. I ended up having to switch bottles to dr browns, gentlease formula, colief in the formula and if he seems real gassy at times I give him little tummys gas drops by mouth. So a combo of all of that over the last few days (been doing this for a week now) he's showed sla lot of improvement.
So I would suggest maybe getting colief and little tummys in case the colief doesn't completely work you have something else to use with it.

Lo's doctor knows how I'm doing things and she says its all fine and if it works go for it.

 

[bitethebullet]

I was using it and I breastfeed so put it in a spoonful of newly expressed milk before the feed (the enzyme apparently works in the stomach for up to 30 mins) so i guess you could probably just add it to the warmed feed immediately prior to feeding. In this case you wouldn't be breaking down the lactose prior to feeding but providing some lactase which can break the lactose down in the stomach.