Reflux

Hiya! My little one is 3 weeks old tomorrow. Has been combo fed (expressed and formula). Has about 2/3 bottles of formula a day and would drinking anything from 60-120ml. Maybe 1 4oz a day but would be satisfied. This was only because the prep machine makes a minimum 4oz also. With expressed milk would generally drink 70ml snd be satisfied, and occasional need an extra 20ish ml. Feeding every 2-3 hours during day and occasionally a 4 hour stint at night . This week she’s been extremely constipated, and was feeding every 1.5 hours, and then being sick a lot from feeding so much. Anyway long story short she’s now opened her Bowels but midwife is concerned with how much she’s being sick and said 4oz is a lot for her to be drinking. We started her on infacol 3 days ago. Last night we changed to cow and gate reflux formula (it’s thicker in consistency) and it’s advised to give a faster flow teet. She was on 0 and 1 teets. We’ve now given her the teet 2 for formula and she’s now demolishing 4oz every feed and still wants more?! And drinking it quicker. Should we put the new formula in teet 1? As surely 4oz every feed is too much. She just had her second 4oz since midnight and has been sick quite a lot. We will give her the size 1 teet for her next feed and see. We were planning on not giving her breast milk today and just monitor how she is on formula, and then have info to give to GP? Because is it the formula making her sick, is it my breast milk making her sick, is it drinking too much or drinking too quick?! Or is it the way we’re feeding her? We’re also pace feeding the bottles. Stopping regularly to burp inbetween. Feeding support told me that the mam bottles anti colic are great and to give her the empty teet to suck on to replicate the nipple (but we wasn’t doing this as she was too inpatient and I’ve now stopped trying to latch her due to poor latch), midwife saw us feeding yesterday and said we need to put more milk in the teet as she was sucking in air (bottle horizontal to floor and teet half empty). So now we make sure the bottle is more elevated but it means she drinks it quicker as the teet is filled more than before but the difference is there’s now there’s no air sound with drinking. Having conflicting advice which confuses things then. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Often babies try to drink more if their tummy hurts so it could be if she's taking in extra air and getting wind trapped she drinks more to compensate. Also infacol can make reflux worse due to the orange flavouring in it try a different one like dentinox. Also when you say being sick is it a whole feed or an Oz or two because there is a big difference in terms of what might help x

@Naomi thank you for replying. I can def relate to that as when she was constipated and grunted she was wanting milk every 1.5 hours so that def explains. We will get some of that today! It’s not sick a full feed no, sometimes it’s like 2 hours later and really thick and clumpy and it’s like 3 wipes of a muslin, other times an hour later it will be really watery and saturate through bedding etc. But when I fed her at 6; mid feed she burped and sick run all down my hand and then after the feed and put her down, she was sick quite a lot half hour later had to pick her up and that was probably the most she’s done where’s it’s still been the Consitency of the milk. She fell asleep on my chest then for an hour and I’ve put her down again and she’s stirring again now xx

It sounds like normal reflux my baby has it she's 7 months now and still is a bit sicky but is getting better. Also just to let you know the anti-reflux formula can increase constipation. But hang in there it does get better xx

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