Anyone baby it’s on SMA Althera formula?

My baby poo it’s been green smelly and diarrhoea and she doesn’t fancy the taste of it we struggle with every feed although we started her on this formula few days ago so I’m hoping her tummy settles . Anyone have similar experience? Does your baby settled on cmpa milk ?

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My Baby has been of for 4 weeks. The farts and poos stink but she is generally happier on it and her poo has been green the whole time. Most of hers are moist but the gp recommended we try due to her symptoms being super constipated and it’s solved that

My daughter wouldn’t even swallow the SMA althera. Tried twice and she wouldn’t take it, so I called the doctor back the next day and they prescribed aptamil pepti 1 and she was a lot better on that. So we put it down she hated the taste of the SMA one.

My baby has been on this since about 3/4 months old she got used to the taste luckily I’ve read things about you can put vanilla extract (no alcohol version) in (ask your GP/health professional/health visitor if this is allowed hope it settles for her. I would say around a week later she was so much happier she’s now 11 months xx

Yep baby has been on it for almost 2 weeks her poo is runnier and green alot of the time. I will however take that over the mucus and blood she had previously. It did take about 5 days to notice an improvement in my daughter but she's so much more settled on the sma she got used to the taste eventually.

My baby can’t sleep because of reflux from the formula and gas her tummy cramps a lot and she is so unsettled I don’t know if I need to request for changing formula or what to do ? My son used to be on pepti 1 never had gas issue only reflux but it’s solved with omeprazole but with my daughter everything just seems much worse

I know they say it takes up to 6 weeks for you to see a difference. You could always ask and see what they say. I know it’s awful I am not going to lie I’m due my second daughter within weeks and dreading if she is another CMPA and reflux baby it was so tough. Should also say we found using carobel with the pepti 1 helped her reflux better than the medication. Just thickens up the milk to help it stay in the tummy.

My son was temporarily given this when his Nutramigen went out of stock. It made his milk allergy symptoms come back and his dietician said it could have been because it has lactose in whereas the Nutramigen doesn’t. He was fine again when he went back on the Nutramigen so might be worth trying something new.

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Can someone pls help i keep making this post and nobody is responding

My boyfriend booked a trip for us to go to mexico for a week as my push present. I have severe anxiety leaving my 7 month old with my mom. I know she will be in good hands but she’s exclusively breast fed for the most part but accepts bottles just fine. i have all my pumping parts packed and will pump when baby normally eats but i don’t want baby to forget me or have latch issues when i return!! any mommas ever experience this?

When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

Rapid cool/ hot shot method

Sorry if this sound stupid but how are we doing the hot shot method?
Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!

Night time routine

Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

i just want someone to talk to😔😔😔😔

when things get hard i have nothing not any support from my partner im convinced he doesn’t even love me anymore but thats another story
I have a 3 yo and a 2yo that are in bed sleeping only just now. I have a 1 yo that’s been sleeping from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock. I just gave her her milk and she would’ve gone back to sleep if it wasn’t that
I lost her dummy earlier in the day when I went out
so now she won’t go back to sleep and she won’t accept any of the other dummy’s i have!😔😔and it’s 10 o’clock and I’m gonna be up until 3 o’clock with her and when she does want to go to sleep i won’t have any dummy to give her she will accept and she won’t sleep without it i just wanna cry 😔i have nobody to talk to and i feel so alone i get no support from anybody i’m so tired and i don’t feel well to top it off😔