Curly: We moved ds up to the medium flow a few days ago so see how he goes over the next few days see if anything changes. At the moment we are taking it slow and watching him alot when feeding to make sure that he doesn't choke due to the faster flow but he seems to be ok with them .
Funny you mentioned the snuffliness as ds is a bit snuffy. Ill clear his nose tomorro and see how we go.
I def think I will go back to a plain formula, maybe go back to nan or try heinz if it doesn't clear up after he finishes his next can of karicare. If i have to smell his spew i would like it to at least smell a bit nicer than karicare lol. I think formula's prey on the insecurities of formula feeding mums, esp with karicares new pre-biotics in the gold which apparently support the babies immune system. I think thats what sucked us into the gold as everyone told me not to use gold formula.
What is the best way to introduce a new formula if we need to? Someone mentioned that we should not just change the tin, should we introduce a bottle a day till we change over completely?
I don't know about gradually changing over - when I changed DD's formula I just opened the new tin of Nan and away I went...oops. Maybe someone else can help there.
Just wanted to post that the Nan is a gold formula and I have never seen it in a non-gold version. One of my friends is a GP and she likes Nan HA but that is also gold (my DD is on the regular Nan Pro Gold). So if you are wanting a non-gold formula Nan won't be the one for you.
Good luck! I hope that something works for you. If it is the nose thing, I sympathise. Poor DD hates having the saline squirted up her nose and we are spending a fortune on saline at the moment (the Otrivin baby nasal saline ampoules or Fess) because she has a cold which makes it even worse. But I checked with the GP who said it was fine, it's really the only thing that we can do until she grows out of it...
Ok so I took DS to the gp today after a terrible morning feed. He thinks that he has reflux and has put him on losec for a week to see if it makes a difference.
I am relieved that we have an answer although I know that it may not be reflux at least we have a starting point. I am so upset wih myself for not taking him to the doctor earlier, for the longest time I thought he was just a grumpy bub and now it seems he has been in pain for a long time.
just remember... Losec doesnt help vomiting. Mia was on it for 2.5 months and i took her off it coz she couldnt keep it down anyway. I have put her on a homopathic medicine as she doesnt necesarily need to swallow it, it can be rubbed into her skin if need be.
dont put yourself down. babies are hard to tell if they are upset, grumpy or in pain.
you ahev doen teh right thing.
we had issues with DD se didnt like nan or s26 but the heinze gold stayed down and she thrived on it. we also found the faster teets were better for her as she was sucking to hard on the slow teet and was causing gas build up so she would throw up after feeding.
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