well for us we were on AR because we suspected she had dysphagia (swallowing disorder) - turns out eiither she outgrew it after a month or so on AR and a change in feeding styles from us or just had an oral aversion issue (caused by mommy and daddy being stupid and forcing her to take more food :oops: even when she protested at 120ml) we ended up with heavy speech pathologist involvement (a godsend - thank you australian government!!) a lovely lady who came and observed feeds about 5 times and gave us so much help and even beyond feed issues. she wanted us to try regular formula again after things had improved (feeds had been huge battles with tears, arching away, fear, etc) and olivia drank it fine - we were so relieved and have not looked back - it was more expensive and constipating (already had poop issues before the AR :roll: )
we used S26 - AR and although constipating it never went like custard - is the hypoallergenic version that different? i assumed that is what HA stood for...
we were the same with the quiet times - 1st feed (while Dh gave dd1 bkfst) and then 2-3pm feed while dd1 napped. Now Alex mostly respects that if Olivia's door is almost closed it means to wait quietly or go play. if she barges in or lets olivia see her - that is the end of it for a while. Olivia cannot even feed in the living room with no one else around because she can hear birds, see trees, watch shadows, anythign distracts her from feeding (the other day i got hiccups at bedtime feed and she refused to continue :roll: )