Newbie…help??

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Both of my daughters had silent reflux (didn’t spit up) but had terrible results on both Nutramigen and Alimentum. The consistancy was too thin and when we tried them on it, they began to spit up. Once we took them off, the spitting up stopped. Don’t know if anyone else has had that experience with their little refluxers but that was ours. I know that for various reasons, babies need to be on those formulas but for strictly reflux, we didn’t have any success.

Alimentum and nutramigen still have milk proteins in them that a sensitive baby can react to if mspi(milk/soy protein intolerent). Some things to look for are loose, musousy stools, sometimes with black peices of blood in them, major painful gas, and frequent spitting up. Have you noticed that when you switch formulas, everything is fine for a few days, and then they start to fuss again? We went through 6 of them. Some forumulas are waterlike consistentcy, so many of us moms have to thicken with cereals. Stay away from rice it will be too binding constipates easily. Beech nut brand is soy free, we use the oatmeal and have since 4 months old. (just a tbs or 2).

From what you described it sounds like reflux. We had an upper gi done to diagnose dd. Does your son pull away from the bottle, arch, scream and cry? It used to take dd 30 to really start feeling the burn. Always hold baby upright for 30 mins after eating. (we never put ours down flat) and have him sleep on an incline. We use a wedge sling combo at 60 degree angle. We used to have her sleep in her carseat or swing (even on me). Also, before we got prevacid we used mylanta cherry supreme before bottles and when things got bad. I think we used .5 ml at 2 months. If you give to much, you get loose stools.

Ohh, also my baby choked and gurgalled alot when i was feeding her, we had a barium swallow study done and found out she had a swallowing dysfunction form prematurity and had to thicken her formula with something called simply thick. So maybe, that could be something to mention as well. Good luck to you, hope you find the answers you are looking for!