Hpw to wean onto neocate?

[Anonymous]

I’m going to make a long story short and say that right now my
daughter Hailey is on nutramigen and that has not been helping her at
all so her pedi gave us some neocate to try out. I have been reading
that it’s not wise to just switch over 100%, but that you should wean
onto neocate being that its so thin it can make reflux worse (Hailey
does have acid reflux as well) and they have to get used to it. I
noticed that even nutramigen is thinner than the soy formula she was on
and it seems like her conditon has worsened since being put on
nutramigen. When she spits up she SCREAMS. Literally screams in pain.

So
my question is how do you wean onto neocate? Do I do part nutramigen
and part neocate in the bottle? I also read it tastes awful and that
they recommend “vanilla essence” or “golden syrup” in the neocate, and
maybe I’ve just lived a very sheltered life but I don’t know what
either of those are. I don’t want to assume vanilla esence means
vanilla extract if that’s not safe to put in a baby’s bottle!!

Hailey is 3 months old by the way.

[Anonymous]

I would start with an ounce of Neocate mixed with her Nutramigen and then gradually increase until you have her on full neocate after about week. Some moms on here have used Splenda for the sweetener and i am sure they have used other stuff. Is she on any meds? It sounds like she may be in substantial pain and probably needs meds to make her feel better.

[Anonymous]

She is currently on Zantac and has been for about a month and a half now. We had tried prevacid with no luck, and we had added reglan onto the zantac but it didn’t help at all. She sleeps completely through the night (meaning goes to bed at a little before 10pm and will sleep until almost 9am the next morning!) so her pedi is thinking that since we have tried everything to reduce the reflux and it isn’t helping with her discomfort that it is most likely a food allergy. Also, at night she sleeps on her back without the crib inclined and is put down immediately after her last feeding, so you’d think that if her reflux was bothering her she wouldn’t sleep through the night under those conditions. So just yesterday we saw her pedi and decided to discontinue the use of the reglan being that it wasn’t helping and start on neocate because even after increasing her zantac she wasn’t getting better. I hadn’t gotten a reply before this morning and decided to try giving straight neocate and she gobbled it down! I mean she drank that so fast she drank her entire bottle and wanted more lol. She has only spit up once (she’s had two bottles of it) and she didn’t get upset after spitting up, which was great because we were in a store haha. It’s 2pm and she has yet to have a fit but I’m still not counting my chickens.

Cooper’s mom wrote: I would start with an ounce of Neocate mixed with her Nutramigen and then gradually increase until you have her on full neocate after about week. Some moms on here have used Splenda for the sweetener and i am sure they have used other stuff. Is she on any meds? It sounds like she may be in substantial pain and probably needs meds to make her feel better.

[Anonymous]

I’m a little late, but just wanted to tell you that we didn’t wean Connor onto the Neocate – we just switched him directly and he did great with it. It did take us about 2 weeks before we saw a huge improvement with his symptoms, but he didn’t have any trouble taking it right away without blending into the nutramigen (he was on that too).

I will tell you, though, that after his first bottle he was totally mellow, which was SO different than how he used to be. DH said to me “this is a completely different baby”. We had bad times again before things got good for good, but it really was amazing how quickly he reacted to it that first time.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply! Hailey did great taking the Neocate yesterday. She only spit up 3 times which was a huge improvement from when she was on Nutramigen. She still screamed after spitting up two of the times, and did have a fit after one of her bottles, but they still weren’t the intensity of before. I was actually able to “decode” her crying and know that she was sleepy or hungry rather than just in pain. Hopefully she continues to get better and this is just what she needed. I hate seeing her in pain and it is so frustrating as her mother to not be able to take it away.

ljhar1013 wrote: I’m a little late, but just wanted to tell you that we didn’t wean Connor onto the Neocate – we just switched him directly and he did great with it. It did take us about 2 weeks before we saw a huge improvement with his symptoms, but he didn’t have any trouble taking it right away without blending into the nutramigen (he was on that too).

I will tell you, though, that after his first bottle he was totally mellow, which was SO different than how he used to be. DH said to me “this is a completely different baby”. We had bad times again before things got good for good, but it really was amazing how quickly he reacted to it that first time.

Good luck!

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