Bottle feeding difficulties- hopefully a solution!

So I thought I’d share our journey the last week hoping it will help someone else in the same situation 😊 My baby girl is six weeks tomorrow and since we bought her own from the hospital during feeding has always been a fussy thing for her she would bring up her legs, kicking flapping her arms, grizzling. She would show feeding cues but when it comes to actually feeding would get about 5 to 10 seconds of her having a bottle in her mouth and her spitting it back out and crying. We did initially think it was due to the fact she’s got a slight tongue tie but this is only slight so we was told it wouldn’t really affect feeding especially bottle feeding. So the next thing we thought it was colic but yet again didn’t really have all the symptoms of colic including the vomiting at the time so when I rang the health visitor we was advised book a GP appointment as some of the symptoms she was presenting was more reflux or a cows milk allergy, Just to add as well she’s had baby acne since she was born on her face and it had been slowly getting worse spreading into her ears, neck and chest. Before I rang the GP as well she was presenting with a wheezy chest after a good projectile vomit session and she did started being really sick in the week leading up to when we saw the GP. So anyway, long story short the GP seems to think it wasn’t reflux and it was more of a cows milk allergy. We now have special milk and have been on that since Thursday afternoon. Her baby acne has significantly gone down and she seemed a lot more settled in herself. Her belly is not as hard anymore and she seems to be going to the toilet a little bit more than what she was (number two wise). As for the Weezy chest, she has bronchitis on top of this bless her so we now have nasal saline drops for this. So as I say I hope that this will help someone else may be in the same position. Not an expert but I know I found everyone’s stories on here a massive help in the past pregnant and postpartum ☺️
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Hey! This is helpful. Thank you for sharing and glad your little one is getting better. I just wondered regarding the cows milk allergy, how was she tested? Xx

She hasn’t been officially tested as of yet, GP was the one that said try this first then when shes been on it two weeks will review and go through the proper channels for diagnosis if she is better on the milk x

AHH ok! I'm wondering if it is still possible to have it when feeding on mainly breast milk? I'm not sure.

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