changing formula milk again

[tigwig]

Hi everyone, my baby is now 4 weeks old and has been difficult for the last 3 weeks when it comes to feeding and settling etc. Last week I changed him onto the C&G comfort milk but this hasn't made any difference, he has now got really stinky quite loose nappies and is starving all the time. He has gone from feeding every 3 hours to wanting milk every 2 hours again. On the advice of my HV I have upped the amount to 5oz but even after this he still gets hungry after such a short time. All I am doing is feeding him, getting severe lack of sleep even with help of hubby and he also cannot settle himself to sleep even when being cuddled sometimes. He wakes after 5 mins. Its a nightmare! I'm wondering whether to change him onto the hungrier baby milk but don't want to upset his tummy anymore but can't carry on like this. Please can anyone advise me?

[k8bailey]

Have the colic symptoms stopped now? Could he have reflux? Does he have a dummy?

[tigwig]

Hi it is very hard to tell if he has colic or not. 2 doctors have told me he doesn't as he is too young so I don't know what to think. He does sometimes appear to be in pain and goes red in the face and wriggles but I think this is when he has trouble getting his wind up rather that being in agony with colic. I have tried him with 3 different types of dummy but he won't take them when he is upset! He only occasionally takes one when he is rarely calm and never when he is crying or to sleep with so have given up with that for now. He was checked out in hospital for reflux and they said he doesn't have it.

[carron81]

Hi

It could be worth trying the hungry baby milk. i breast fed my daughter for the first week and she fed that much i barely got time to go to the toilet, eat, wash or do anything. she was on me at least 22 hours a day and feeding properly. she was a big baby though

so we put her on the bottle and she was the same, she was going up and up in the amount of ounces she was having so quick in the first few weeks. we spoke to the HV and she said not to put her on hungry milk.

i was like ohhh we must do what she says and my boyfriend went and got hungry milk anyway. she went from 7 or 8 bottles of milk to 4 or 5 hungry milks a day and was soon off her night feed and sleeping right through from a couple months and i think she wasn't getting enough milk and it was the hungry milk that done it for her

its definately worth a try. i was even funny when my boyfriend said we should change milks because she kept being sick, it took me a couple of weeks to change and as soon as we went to Aptimal she stopped being sick. Her nappies were awful till she settled with the milk but I was glad she wasn't being sick

we also figured out that she liked being swaddled. it was her comfort thing to be wrapped up in her blanket

[smartie733]

i would try hungry baby milk. my 12 week old is on it and breastfed. to be honest it will take a couple of ays to get used to it but it will be fine after that. i did it with my son. and he if fine and healthy