Hungry Baby formula

[lilysmum]

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on whether or not to use this with my dd.

She is 4 weeks old and I started feeding her sma gold then whit cap for hungry babies but due to these milks not having any fibre in them i had to change over to aptamil with 0.8g fibre(according to docs this makes huge diff) yest as she had trouble with bowel movements.

My doctor says its fine to use the hungry baby formula but my hv said its a big no no as baby is too young (tin states frm birth ) and this is why she had proiblems with her bowels so now im totally confused.

Has anyone given their child the hungry baby stuff? Did they have any problems with it?

 

[alio]

My boys on Aptamil Extra Hungry and after a couple of days struggling a little bit with poos he's fine now. I recommend it, so did my MW and HV and he's younger than yours!xx

 

[Miss Duke]

My sil was told to wait until 6 weeks with her lo, but thats just her opinion!! If it says from birth on the box then it can't do any harm, and you can always switch back if it doesn't agree with him.

 

[Gems]

Im breast feeding but give my 6 week old daughter one bottle of Aptimil hungry baby every night before she goes to bed. At first she seemed to struggle with her poo the next morning but now she is fine.
It says from birth on tim so dont worry about it.
With regards to HV, ive fallen out with mine as she gave me such a hard time for giving her this one bottle a day to begin with. Argh !!!
Its great tho as my LO sleep for a full 5-6 hours with a fully tummy and i get some much needed beauty sleep !

 

[the_hug]

I use Aptamil extra hungry with Jack and he never had any trouble with pooing and settles much better than he did with the normal one.

 

[reallytinyamy]

do what you think is best for your LO. Chloe didnt get on with hungry SMA and is back on gold. give it a go, there's no medical readon not to as far as I know

 

[lilysmum]

Thanks for ur advice. Ive decided to stick with the aptamil just now and see how we go, although shes only going about 3 hours for a feed but at night shes sleeping for 5 maybe 6 hours. Although her bowel movements havent improved any but i suppose ive just got to give the milk time to work

 

[nutnut33]

My LO was started off on Aptamil and after 3 weeks wasnt going any longer and was really restless so put him on extra hungry, still at 9 weeks he wasnt going any longer in the night, in fact every 2 to 2.5 hours and I was exhausted, he was making grunting noises after feeds in the night and didnt go to sleep sometimes till an hour later!! He was also pooing after every Aptamil feed. So at 9 weeks I put him on SMA White and from that first night he slept through till 5-6am and he only poos about twice a day, but, has never had any problem with constipation. The way I see it pooing is way of getting rid of waste so Aptamil obviously wasnt satisfying him for him to be pooing so much after every feed. I personally think Aptamil is overrated!!!