So my little one, Kendall was put on Enfamil Enfacare 22 cal. since she's been out of the NICU. She is CONSTANTLY uncomfortable and spitting up. Im pretty sure she has reflux, but she was put on meds and that still did nothing. I now with permission from my pediatrician started her today on Soy formula. It's not a higher cal. formula, but i'm hoping it might settle better w/ her stomach.
My questions is...any of you experiance this with your preemie and switching formulas helped the problem? Did they still gain the weight they needed w/out being on the higher cal?
Re: Formula for your preemie question?
DS did ok on neosure in the hospital at first, but gradually did not. especially when they stopped the HMF. he was on 28cal. 3 days after being home he refused the formula(it was mixed with breastmilk), screamed thru every feed and wouldnt eat. so then we tried plain neosure and plain breastmilk. he would either refuse, puke or be SUPER gassy when he had the formula(we actually tried a few). on plain BM he was totally fine. so he has been on 100% breastmilk since right after he came home and has been so much happier. recently i had given him formula here and there and he finally did ok. it was enfamil premium and only 2oz here and there.
as for meds, maybe he needs an increase in the dose or something different. call the pedi and ask. we had DS's adjusted a few times.
Our Family Blog