Comfort Milk?

[Carla81]

Hi, My baby is 5 weeks old and i only managed to bf for a week before switching to Aptamil formula. After about another week Dylan would not settle at night in his crib and cried when lying down. He seemed to writhe around and make faces as if maybe he was a it constipated. Hv advised to try comfort milk as she said he did sound a bit constipated and maybe had a touch of colic. Have been using aptamil comfort and infacol now for 3 weeks but if anything things seem worse the past few days. He is increasingly hard to wind and often cries, goes red in face, arches his back, throws his head back and farts a lot but only poos once every 2 days. Last 2 nights he has barely slept all night - all these things i have mentioned are worse during night than day. Yesterday i read a lot of info on the net and some suggested comfort milk isnt particularly good for babies so young and can actually make things worse. Also read some babys just dont take to a certain brand of milk. Anyway i have decided to buy SMA and go back to normal milk not comfort.
Does anyone have any advice / experience as its hard seeing him obviously struggling and i havent slept in 48 hrs really!

Thanks x

 

[kumber]

I would avoid comfort milk personally. It sounds very much like reflux, I would pop to GP

 

[Browneyed Girl]

What is he like when he's feeding? Is he calm or writhing about/arching his back then? xx

 

[Charliebump3]

Hello what bottles are you using. I swear by the dr brown bottle they are really fiddly and pricy but work really well.

My youngest use to scream when feeding and she even refused to eat. She dropped 2 centile before the doctor did anything. She is now on SMA lactose free and is very happy. She also has gaviscon now for her constant sickness and its really done the trick.

My only advice is to fight! Go to the doctors and hv weekly! They are sick of me but I don't care my little girl now happily drinks her milk and gets very excited when she sees her milk x huge difference to how she was x

 

[ShowingPromise]

We use comfort milk (cow and gate) and it really helped. We are going to switch back to the original stuff soon though as the comfort milk is so much thicker he doesn't always eat much and the colic has passed now.
Perhaps try another brand? We tried lots of different bottles, teats, infacol and gripe water etc but it was the formula that eased his colic and constipation. Doc suspected he had reflux too but turns out he didn't after trying gaviscon.

 

[JD.Deedee]

Looking at my own experience, I'd suggest to try and figure out why breastfeeding initially went wrong.. I'm at 2,5 now with a child who has speech delay and has always been a vomiter who did not sleep flat on his back ever and I'm almost certain the problem is in his mouth which then has been the cause of him vomiting at a young age, troubles breast feeding, trouble with formula and so on.. Reflux was also a symptom of it but it wasn't the cause.. x

 

[Carla81]

What is he like when he's feeding? Is he calm or writhing about/arching his back then? xx

He is calm when feeding and takes 5oz every 3-4 hrs x

 

[Carla81]

Hello what bottles are you using. I swear by the dr brown bottle they are really fiddly and pricy but work really well.

My youngest use to scream when feeding and she even refused to eat. She dropped 2 centile before the doctor did anything. She is now on SMA lactose free and is very happy. She also has gaviscon now for her constant sickness and its really done the trick.

My only advice is to fight! Go to the doctors and hv weekly! They are sick of me but I don't care my little girl now happily drinks her milk and gets very excited when she sees her milk x huge difference to how she was x

We have been using Dr Browns bottles from the start. He is feeding well and gaining weight fine and is never sick! X

 

[Carla81]

I would avoid comfort milk personally. It sounds very much like reflux, I would pop to GP

He is never sick though, wouldnt he be sick a lot if it was reflux? X

 

[kumber]

He is never sick though, wouldnt he be sick a lot if it was reflux? X

Not necessarily if it's silent reflux

 

[JD.Deedee]

He is never sick though, wouldnt he be sick a lot if it was reflux? X

Not necessarily if it's silent reflux

They can check that via PH in the breath...

 

[heatheror12]

My little boy had really bad constipation and colic when he born. I tired the comfort milk which I found was really thick and blocked the teats! There ended up being a shortage of the aptilmil and cow and gate comfort milk. My HV advised against SMA and reccomenrd Hipp organic milk. I can't rate it enough it took a good few weeks for him to settle but apart from the odd time he was fine. He's 6 months now and still on it no problems. But all babies are different. But worth a try

 

[Colleen1988]

i would take the advice of your HV hun, they are trained professionals with experience of thousands of babies and the problems that arise... No harm in trying it and if it doesn't work let your HV know so they can suggest something else, that's what they are there for hun xxx

 

[Lolie14]

How is Dylan now?

My lg has reflux and did the writhing thing. She was on cow and gate but we switched to hipp organic and it was so much better for her. We have also always used Dr Browns and they work well together.

My lg is now on gaviscon for her reflux and the writhing has stopped too.

 

[Stupidred]

Carla,
At this age their guts are immature and need to get used to formula.
When my LG was 3 weeks old she had colic. Between then and week 11 we tried her with infacol, dentinox, gripe water, colief was prescribed and we tried comfort milk too. The comfort milk gave her terrible farts and her poo went green. She also had worse constipation because the milk is thicker.
I then decided to wean her off the comfort milk and stopped trying everything under the sun.

Sometimes there are so many people giving you advice you try everything and it gets to the point where you don't know what is actually working. I took her off everything and she settled on her owbln l. She still gets reflux and spits up but I just guess that's what babies do.

Perhaps try doing nothing... My simplest suggestion

X

 

[JennaFree]

I would avoid comfort milk personally.

 

[ShowingPromise]

Why is that Jenna?

 

[Toria111]

I used aptamil comfort for my daughter, but found it made her constipated. So we swapped to the aptamil anti- reflux, and stuck with that till she moved on to cows milk. It might be worth a try.

I didn't realise my lo had reflux and she's my third baby.