Bronchiolitis sucks!

[butterfly_warrior]

I really do wonder if breast milk gives them as much grief with snottiness as formula does... It's got to be not as bad! I know when I'm all congested the last thing I want to drink is cows milk, and formula being cows milk based, that's likely where it comes from.

Things are looking up. He still has a horrible cough and a bit of a wheeze, particularly when it's cold. But his colour has returned to normal and he's a lot happier and a bit more normal in his behaviour. And best of all - he just drank 170mL with his last bottle! This is the child that used to gulp his way through 240mL each feed and was barely scraping through 100mL for a while there! There's still a long way to go, but I can see that he's so much better now than he was.

BW

[Schmickers]

Glad to hear things are looking up.

We do tend to find that breast milk and breast feeds are better tolerated than cow's milk feeds, but we do still have babies that are unable to tolerate any feeds at all and have to be tube fed or put on IV fluids until they get better.