Which formula is your baby on and why?

[Lara310809]

* I put LO on Aptamil stage 1 milk first. I put her on it because I heard it was the closest to breastmilk, and I had originally planned to combi-feed (half breast, half bottle). I lost my milk, so she ended up being 100% formula fed when she was 1 month old.
* We took her off Aptamil when she was colicky, and we tried her on Cow & Gate stage 1, but nothing changed.
* We then tried Cow & Gate Comfort, which seemed to help, but we also changed her bottles, so not really sure if it was the milk that helped most, or the bottles
* She was then moved onto Nutramigen Stage 1 when they thought she had a lactose intolerance.
* Turns out she didn't, so we came off Nutramigen and went onto Aptamil stage 3 milk (when she was 7 months old).
* She's not been putting weight on properly though, so this week we have put her on Infatrini, which is a high calorie formula. She will be on that just until she puts on a little more weight and climbs her centiles again, and then we will put her back on Aptamil stage 3.

Yep, we have lots of experience in formula I personally think the Infatrini tastes great; just like regular milk. The Nutramigen "tastes like death" according to my OH, and I would tend to agree; it's really bitter and leaves a stink in the bottles. The Aptamil s1 and Cow & Gate s1 were also nice tasting. Comfort milk I didn't like much. My LO though, was happy drinking all of them; I don't think she's too fussy

Maggie has also been on many milks mainly on Neocate which is similar to Nutragimen and yes it does taste like death which is why i think she has a fobia of the bottle. My friends baby is on Infantrini and yes it tastes delicious!! Do you have to get it via prescription???

Maggie only drinks about 10ozs a day so could do with a high calorie formula.

Yeah, I have the Infatrini on prescription, and had the Nutramigen on prescription too. I'm not in the UK though, so not sure if they would give you that particular formula. She has the ready-made 7oz bottles of Infatrini, and seems to be guzzling the lot At 5m she was only having 10-15oz per day, and last month she was sick, so only had about 5oz per day for 2 weeks, so ended up losing about 7oz of weight from that; taking her even lower in the centiles . They finally took us seriously though and gave us Infatrini. Before that, the HV had been telling me to feed her Dairylea; not so easy when your LO refuses solids

 

[MrsRabbit]

* I put LO on Aptamil stage 1 milk first. I put her on it because I heard it was the closest to breastmilk, and I had originally planned to combi-feed (half breast, half bottle). I lost my milk, so she ended up being 100% formula fed when she was 1 month old.
* We took her off Aptamil when she was colicky, and we tried her on Cow & Gate stage 1, but nothing changed.
* We then tried Cow & Gate Comfort, which seemed to help, but we also changed her bottles, so not really sure if it was the milk that helped most, or the bottles
* She was then moved onto Nutramigen Stage 1 when they thought she had a lactose intolerance.
* Turns out she didn't, so we came off Nutramigen and went onto Aptamil stage 3 milk (when she was 7 months old).
* She's not been putting weight on properly though, so this week we have put her on Infatrini, which is a high calorie formula. She will be on that just until she puts on a little more weight and climbs her centiles again, and then we will put her back on Aptamil stage 3.

Yep, we have lots of experience in formula I personally think the Infatrini tastes great; just like regular milk. The Nutramigen "tastes like death" according to my OH, and I would tend to agree; it's really bitter and leaves a stink in the bottles. The Aptamil s1 and Cow & Gate s1 were also nice tasting. Comfort milk I didn't like much. My LO though, was happy drinking all of them; I don't think she's too fussy

Maggie has also been on many milks mainly on Neocate which is similar to Nutragimen and yes it does taste like death which is why i think she has a fobia of the bottle. My friends baby is on Infantrini and yes it tastes delicious!! Do you have to get it via prescription???

Maggie only drinks about 10ozs a day so could do with a high calorie formula.

I found Neocate smelled better than Nutragimen - it was so nasty DD only took 1 bottle of it and never again. I can't blame her. I think I'm just used to EleCare now since it's been 10 months. LOL.

If the cost of the high calorie formula is a lot higher there - here doctors will give the recipe on how to mix the formula to higher calories without having to buy the high calorie formula.
We mix EleCare to 28 calories an ounce instead of 20.

 

[ouchwithNo.2]

we use SMA Staydown for reflux but before that SMA was always my first choice.
Cow and Gate bought LO out in a rash and I never went for the Aptimal as it is made by C&G (so was concerned that the rash ingredient could be in both) and it is so much more £.
IF I were to have another I would give HIPP a try, read lots of good about it and recycling a box rather than a tin seems more friendly on the planet.
The Staydown tastes fab - really creamy and quite sweet.
The cow and gate was revolting!

I cant find a Hipp Organic Staydown milk??

no, I don't think they do one - just the usual stage one, hungry, goodnight milk and growing up.
but if I were to have another baby I would give the HIPP a try.
fed my son farleys back in 2004 which became heinz that was a fab milk.

 

[flippy]

my 4 month old has been put on Infantri..just as a ''top up''- 2 bottles a day. I breastfeed, but she wasnt putting on enough weight with just breastmilk I am so sad about this. Also I have not been well so maybe my milk wasn't as good as it could be. When my baby puts on required amount, we are going back to breast feeding only x