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Colic
Hi
I am after some advise as my little boy is 3 weeks old and very unsettled and he has colic. I am bottle feeding as breast feeding was not working for us so I express milk and try to give him two or three bottles of expressed milk a day along with formula. We are on the aptamil comfort milk as advised by a midwife with a teat size 3 as the milk is thicker and I also give infacol before each feed but he still seems in so much pain. He hardly sleeps and the longest he will sleep in 2 hours sometimes 2.5 if we are lucky and wants to be fed every 1.5 to 2 hours.... I am so tired and to see him in pain is killing me.
The midwife advised me to cut milk and wheat from my diet but this is hard as normally I have cereal for breakfast/lunch and a slice if toast until my hubby comes home then we have dinner as I don't have the time to eat i am feeding so much and the time I have I can just get a shower and get dressed. I am now thinking to stop the expressed milk as this could be upsetting him. He had a bottle today and spat most of it up.
He seems to wake up crying and won't settle to sleep after a feed, a few he will but mostly he fights it's as of the pain. He is red in the face and looks constipated but he has passed stools, clenches his fits and legs and cries. He also makes strange sucking noises when he is asleep and will cry but still be asleep sometimes.
He has gained weight as all he wants to do is feed and we are back at the clinic tomorrow for a check up but wanted to know if anyone has been through this and can give me sny advise???
I have gripe water but says I can't use this until he is 1 month old. I also give him 30ml of cooled boiled water between feeds to keep him going.
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