Health visitor suggesting little and often feeds.

My first baby had reflux and I went through multiple different people at different appointments for months trying to get something to help him. It didn't matter if he was having little and often or going longer periods with a bigger bottle. I think my 5 week old is going the same way as she feeds little and often anyway but still seems to bring up most of her bottle and struggling with wind.
If you can see a different health visitor, you may get a different opinion which happened with me and we got prescribed gaviscon which helped loads and he started taking a bottle better and going longer periods between.
I've always been told you can't overfeed a baby as they'll only eat what they want.
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@Rebecca this is a different health visitor as mine is off for 2 weeks and she is more helpful. She said to try this first and if he's still having symptoms then try the gaviscon. The thing is he burps really well and his spit up is very little, he just seems incredibly uncomfortable on his back, fine when lying on me as soon as he's on his back he's straining and grunting. Thank you for saying about the overfeeding too think in my head it makes me feel like I'm a bad mum 😂

Oh bless your little one. I am having similar situation & going to go down the gaviscon road! It’s like heartburn for them & if we had heartburn we wouldn’t want to be in pain and would treat it. That’s just me. X

@Incognito I agree I initially said to her I'll try the gaviscon and she came back and said the GP wants to try this first see if it makes a difference, his spit up is less but still extremely uncomfortable on his back x

I could have written this about my first daughter two years ago, the exact same thing! I found changing bottles helped and we had to push a good few times for her to be prescribed with infant gaviscon. My health visitor also suggested little and often which just doesn't always work/possible.

If formula feeding in hind-site I also think the formula we used made it slightly worse as kendamil (what we were using) is more creamy/clumpy and so wish I had tried another as think this really added to her discomfort x

@Becky I've been humming about changing the milk or not as something just tells me it's the milk I'm using kendamil too and think it's too rich for him? Do you have an recommendations?

I’ve noticed Gaviscon says you can only give 6 sachets a day, but baby feeds more than that a day. Did you just go without Gaviscon and suffer with the reflux for the other feeds?

our health visitor suggested carobel milk thickener, its been amazing for my little ones reflux and it seems to fill him up longer too without adding additional formula, he takes 90ml-150ml every 3-4hrs, we also use infacol with each feed too. Aptamil comfort could help too maybe, we didn't use this as our little one is on lactose free Aptamil. Hope you find what works for you soon 🤗

That's interesting, yeah I feel like the whole milk makes it richer?
With my second I'm using Hipp Organic and I'm really pleased I am, I find it mixes so much better with the water and less 'bitty and clumpy' than kendamil, no matter how I used to make it and how much I swirled it etc!
That's just what I found personally but I hope you find something that helps x

were you prescribed the carobel milk thickener or you just ordered off pharmacy online? Cause my lil one has all these symptoms and GP is not helpful and I feel like a nuisance always calling them. If I can get it myself I’ll do that to make things easy for him as he is always uncomfortable on his back and always straining and grunting on his back even though I keep him upright for 30 minutes after feeding.

I was prescribed but you can get it on amazon too! We just use one scoop with 150ml bottle and he takes it so well- yes I was having to sit up for 30 minutes after and even then sometimes he was sick as soon as I lay him down, hope it helps!

Here is the link

Cow & Gate Instant Carobel 135g (2 Packs of 135G) https://amzn.eu/d/cKQW7z9

Perf, Thank you so much! I’ll just order it, speaking to Gp is such a long process. That’s so helpful.