Unsure if baby has an allergy or not!

So, long story short my baby was on cow & gate originally and due to mucous/liquidy stools got put on a trial of Aptamil pepti 1 hypoallergenic formula for 10 days. She seemed reasonably content on it but spat up LOADS because it’s so thin and watery. After 10 days of it, we switched to Hipp organic. Baby loves it, but since day 3 on hipp organic she seems so miserable, crying all the time and cooing/smiling less. (Baby is now 8 weeks for context). She has no other allergy symptoms and her poos are normal. I’m not sure if it’s a phase or if she does have an allergy. Not sure whether to go back to pepti 1 or to stick with hipp for a bit longer!

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If she has a milk allergy 10 days is not enough time to trial as cows milk can stay in there system for weeks, I’m not sure how old your baby is but my daughter spat it up but now she’s 8 months and fine with pepti, I mixed pepti and breast milk together to start off with though

@Millie my daughter is 8 weeks old. I’m not convinced she has an allergy if I’m honest but it’s just so hard to tell what is causing her fussiness!

@Charlotte my son never had allergies and he was just a sick up baby, more formula on the floor than in his belly, we tried comfort milk and he refused it because it was to thick so the gp told me to continue with the milk he was on originally, formula is known for spit up or ‘pour up’ and it’s not as bad as it looks which in my eyes was a crazy thing to think at the time, may just have to find the right formula that causes the least discomfort, my son used aptimel but that was 6 years ago now they always change the formulas

@Millie yeah, it’s trial and error isn’t it! It’s not the spit up/sick I’m worried about, it’s her discomfort/crying a lot which I’m concerned about. Something is bothering her and I’m not sure if it’s an allergy, gas or something else

I could have written this myself my 8 week old was on hipp and he was fine on it but was constipated so got given lactulose that done nothing and referred us to a paediatrician we tried aptamil comfort (didn’t notice a change) then we got given movicol (which helps) the paediatrician then put us on aptamil pepti but since then he’s so unsettled after bottles he spits up most of it and is sick (but it’s clear) and he still doesn’t poo unless he has movicol! I also don’t think he has cmpa because the only symptom he has is constipation and it hasn’t got better with this milk..

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