Formula roller coaster - Rant

JulyMomma2U2 · August 2013

Ugh. This is exactly why I was so determined to BF.. So we could avoid this! When we first started supplementing, we were using enfamil newborn, but DS was spitting it up and there was a tiny bit of blood in his stool.. Ped had us go to soy since DS1 required soy.. Started on similac isomil.. Fine for a week and now constipation and crazy gas causing all day/night grunting and groaning and screaming! Ugh. So I decided let's try the enfamil soy and see how he does with that.. Projectile vomit, WTF. With DS1 we had to do a split of nutramigen and similac isomil... I wish my kids were not so sensitive to formulas!! It just makes the BFing fail suck that much more, I've been pumping, and was getting about 15oz/day, but over a week that's dropped to under 8 a day. I'm lucky to get an ounce from each side now.. Idk why it tanked s bad. I'm going to try the prosobee again and jus do a 50-50 split with the isomil and see if he handles that better.. If not, I guess nex step is try the isomil and nutramigen like we did for DS1... Nutramigen is so damn expensive though!! And, was such a pita because Ds1 was always hungry because he digested it so fast... Ughhhh. This sucks.

FmrAFBrat · August 2013

My older DS did the same thing...on Enfamil and Similac. We did Nutramagin for awhile and then I found Gerber Good Start Soy. If you haven't tried it...try it because for whatever reason it worked well. Then he started gaining like a champ.

martinimomma · August 2013

You may also want to try riding out a little longer with the transition to a new formula to let LO's tummy adjust some before moving on to something else at least as relates to gaasiness. As an alimentum family, I know how problematic (and pricey) the hypoallergenic formulas can be and hope you are able to find a more "typical" formula alternative that works for your LO. ((Hugs))

JulyMomma2U2 · August 2013

martinimomma said:

You may also want to try riding out a little longer with the transition to a new formula to let LO's tummy adjust some before moving on to something else at least as relates to gaasiness. As an alimentum family, I know how problematic (and pricey) the hypoallergenic formulas can be and hope you are able to find a more "typical" formula alternative that works for your LO. ((Hugs))

I usually stick with a change for a week and see if there's a difference.. my ped said that's a good time frame... but, since he only had one bottle of prosobee earlier and puked up more than half of it, if he does that again I will just scrap it. Puking up half the bottles isn't worth it.. getting ready to feed him now, and hoping the 50-50 mix will allow him to keep it down better.. FX!!

FmrAFBrat said:

My older DS did the same thing...on Enfamil and Similac. We did Nutramagin for awhile and then I found Gerber Good Start Soy. If you haven't tried it...try it because for whatever reason it worked well. Then he started gaining like a champ.

I will have to give this a try then! I feel like I've spent so much money just "testing" new formulas!!

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