Ready to feed vs powder formula

[Stine333]

My ped told me to try my son on lactose free formula because of all of his spit up.  He has reflux and is on Zantac and Mylanta and we are doing all of the reflux things.  He seemed better for about a week - much less spit up, formed BM - so we thought that was it.  I tried some ready feed formula - thinking it was thicker and may help the formula stay down even better (since my doc said "no way" to thickening with cereal)  Ever since then he has been eating less and less.  He was eating 7 oz at each feeding and now I have to fight with him to get 5 oz in him. He keeps wanting to lean forward and spits out the bottle. 

Do you theink the ready feed makes him full and that is why he does not want as much?  Anyway - I went back to the powder and now he does not like that either.  I called the doc this AM - we will see.

[Mom2katiebug]

Are you using Enfamil Lactose-Free? 

We started on Similac and at about 4MO tried Enfamil Lactose Free.  DDs sleeping improved dramatically and it was practically overnight but she wouldn't drink very much.  When she would only eat 2oz. at each feed, I got worried and we switched back to Similac.   Her intake went up, but the sleep and irritabilty problems returned again and then we switched to Good Starts.  We got a good intake (although she's not a fantastic eater) and good sleep.

PS:  DD had mild reflux during this time as well.

[jmosery]

thats funny

my son was eating 40 oz. before we switched to Enfamil Lactose free. we tried every formula possible, even Neocate

my son is doing great on the Enfamil. only issue is hard popps. so i sometimes give him a tbl. of prune juice in his formula to soften it up. but no gas nothing

he is now eating 28 oz. instead of 40.

we use the powder but I saw a change in the amount he was eating too. its great. he for one month was eating 40 oz. AND cereal in teh bottle and was spitting up terribly AND gained FOUR POUNDS IN 3 WEEKS

it was crazy

he is doing great on the Enfamil Lactose free.

[Mom2katiebug]

DD would eat about 12-15oz per day on Enfamil Lactose Free and would take 24-28oz of other formulas - at that time.

[SallyDom]

I tried some ready feed formula - thinking it was thicker and may help the formula stay down even better

By ready feed do you mean the made up formula that comes in a carton? A friend told me (though I don't know where she got it from) that ready made formula shouldn't be given to babies under 6 months as it is too rich for their tummy's and can give them tummy ache. If you didn't mean this then please ignore me!
Sal
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[JennŠ]

Bit of trivia for you:  There is this funky gel called Simply Thick that you can add to formula to thicken it a bit.  Tasteless, easy to use, but expensive.  We tried cereal, she could not handle it.  The gel, no problems and it seem to help the 'flux some.  What would your doc say to this?