weaning to formula at 9months have some questions!

[dbanana]

I have a 9 month old daughter and she has been breastfed since birth with the odd formula bottle. She has never been a good sleeper and so we decided to give her formula at her night time feed to see if that would help her sleep. She is only taking 6ozs at bedtime should she be taking 8ozs?? So far she breastfeeds 2-3 times a day and has two 6 oz bottles a day. i am going back to work so I have to switch. She wakes during the night but I do not feed her until 4 or 5am. Also she seems to be more gassy at night now that she has had formula is this normal?? Should I have her on a different formula??

[MasynSpencerElliotte]

We started using formula once a day at 6 weeks, she was gassy and had bad stomach pains on regular formula so we switched to soy, still a bit gassy, but went away over time. Not sure on the amounts, right now we do 7 oz over three feedsin the day and a small feed at bed time (3 or 4 oz), but at one point she could pound back 9 oz in a sitting.

HTH
Heidi

[dbanana]

the weird thing is we have been using formula on and off since she was about 10 weeks and she has been fine not gas. But just since I have had her on two bottles of formula and three bfs she has been more gassy and fussy. i am going to switch to the soy today and see if that helps! Thanks for the info!

[MasynSpencerElliotte]

Maybe it's just her body adjusting to the change? Hopefully the soy helps (there are also different hypoallergenic formulas too, but never tried those)

Heidi