CMPA

Mummas of baby's with cows milk protein allergy Any advice welcomed! Anything! We spent the last hour holding our 3 week old while she screamed and screamed and screamed, clawing at my chest with her little hands, red in the face, kicking her legs, inconsolable. Nothing we did helped and it's been awful. It brought me to tears in the end seeing her like that. I've been put on antibiotics for mastitis (third course of antibiotics) so this time we introduced formula because we thought that the antibiotics upset her tummy every time. We originally gave her a bottle of regular Aptamil cows milk formula and she did what I described above. This time we gave her a bottle of lactose free formula and she did the same. Any CMPA advise please?? What formula do you use that worked? What did you do that helped settle them? What do you NOT recommend doing? Really don't want to see her in pain after feeding anymore 😭

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Was there any signs of cpma when you were breastfeeding? As if not, it could just be an upset stomach from the changes in milk. My eldest has cpma and we did try lactose free at one point in our journey, and whilst it settled his tummy slightly, it still contains cows milk protein so he was still in a lot of pain. Only thing that stopped it was a milk completely free of cows milk protein x

Just to add, it can take 2 weeks for them to adjust to a new milk. Which i know isn’t fun when watching them suffer x

Thank you so much for your advise ☺️ It turns out it was a lactose intolerance, not cmpa because we can safely feed a lactose free formula and she isn't too bad. But we were not sure for a while there!! She wouldn't settle on anything!