Sicky Baby

[ruth222]

My baby is 3 weeks old on monday and as I couldn't BF he is FF. We started him on SMA gold which wasn't working out for him at all, he was very constipated and throwing bits up. So we talked to the HV and decided to change his milk over, so were now on Aptimel, which he's been on almost a week. It started off pretty good and hes poo's got softer which is great, but all seems to have gone down hill again, hes throwing up bits again, and this morning my partner got up with him and told me he pretty much threw up the whole bottle in little bits. So he's not taking enough in. I'm not sure what this is, I mean is it colic? is there any reason they would throw it up and anything I can do? We have been giving him Infacol before every feed also as recommended by HV which I thought had been helping with his wind. When he was weighed last was told he hadn't put on much weight as he is a big baby, was 9lb 3oz at birth, and should be taking in more milk than he is, were making up 120ml bottles and he's leaving 20-30 ml of it a time. And he's feeding every 2 hours in the day, and 3-4 hours at night. I'm hoping any mums can give advice, before I call the HV/doctor, thanks

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

Hi, I don't think there's a problem with taking 90ml approx every 2 hours in the day and 3-4 at night, that's precisely what my 5 week old does. We use Cow and Gate btw and she's never been constipated...sorry can't be more help.

 

[ALY]

Hi hun my son sam was the same x
we tried every milk there was and nothing helped him
the hv said to try the new nurture gentle for sensitive belly
it has been the only one that sam asnt been sick with it work as it becomes thicker in their bellys so its harder for them to bring back up if that makes sence hun x

 

[ruth222]

He had his second bottle of the day earlier on and hasn't sicked any of it up, so just going to keep a eye on things, thanks

 

[verona]

I had to use cow and gate comfort for joel. And i got baby gaviscon off the doctors cos he had colic and Reflux.

 

[Heavenx]

My daughter was the same, she sufferred terrible colic and was always very sicky, we started her on SMA but swaped her onto C&G and that together with putting dentanox colic drops in her formula helped SO much. Infacol didn't do anything for Sophia, but the dentanox worked wonders.

Its a guessing game, I hope you find something that helps your LO soon.