Changing from nutramigen to neocate

Hi all
My little boy is 2 months and has been on nutramigen from about 11 days old.
It worked well for a while, but about two weeks ago he started fussing on his feeds and only having 60-70ml instead of his usual 150ml. He was thrashing his head around and pushing the bottle away.

We went back to the GP and requested an amino acid formula as we assumed the nutramigen was irritating his tummy.

We’ve been on neocate since Monday, but he is still really resistant to feeds, throwing his arms and legs and head around. It can take an hour to get him to have 4oz. It is worse in the evenings

My health visitor was entirely unhelpful today - and said she will book me in for a weight check in two weeks but to ring the GP (my GP is utterly useless with anything to do with CMPA and just follows a checklist on her computer)

Has anyone had a baby with similar issues of feeding fussiness/refusal and how did it get better?

We’ve tried different bottles which worked for one feed but now he’s back to his old tricks.

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Hey my baby has just started SMA Althrea powder (same as nutrimigen but a different brand) so i cant comment on CMPA just yet but we swapped her bottles from dr brown to mam bottles and they work better for us. Xx

Neocate is supposed to be really thin & tastes awful. A lot of people either add a thickener or vanilla essence in to help it taste better. There is a really good group on Fb called main group CMPA support. There is 100’s of posts and bits of info I’ve read so much on there and got so much info the gps can be a waste of time they were with me too x

That group on Facebook is useful! We've spoke with a dietician who said that some babies with CMPA over feed when going through all their tummy issues (as comfort) and so when the reactions stop they are readjusting etc. Out of interest, what bottles and teet are you using. We had to stay on Mam size 1 teets until 8 months because the 2 was too fast and he fed terribly on it

So I’m on MAM size 2 (literally swapped from tommee tippe to mam yesterday) as we use carobel as a thickener!

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