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February 2025 Babies 🇺🇸

Advice please! My 6m baby has started spitting up more than she used to, is it a formula issue or bc she’s teething??

My baby was born 6w early, so she spent the first month of her life in the NICU, and they put her on Similac Neosure. Now, since day 1, she has always done this grunting/ straining thing, like she was always trying to poop, but it didn’t seem to be bothersome so we let it go. Then when we brought her home, she was ok for awhile but then she would start crying and screaming, like she was in pain, so her ped put her on Similac Alimentum, and that seemed to help with the pain and eventually the grunting and straining lessened.

But we just got on WIC and the formula provided is Enfamil, not Similac. We were ok trying it out tho bc we’d thought about changing anyway due to cost and…well, the smell, it was just awful. So we switched her to Enfamil Gentlease and she feeds on it perfectly, seems to like it, her previous issues didn’t start back up or anything so we thought, great! But she started spitting up a lot. Way more times than she used to. It doesn’t bother her any but it’s hard to keep her or myself or the furniture clean now.

But, this all coincides with her starting to teeth, and I know things can change a little then, with feedings and such. Like, her drooling is just out of control, and she never used to drool at all.

My bf says, she’s a baby, babies spit up, and I get that, and I get I have no point of reference as I’m a FTM, but why the sudden change? And why so much? Keeping her still after a bottle doesn’t work, almost as soon as you move her she spits up, and then does it again 5 or 6 more times.

Is it the formula?? Or the teething?? Has anyone else had this issue?