my daughter is 6 wks old can't seem to get full off formula. please help?

Question

Our dr has switched her to Smiliac Isomil lactose free. Which has helped with her gas. Now we are having a problem with her not getting full off of it. Everyone tells me to put some rice cereal in her bottle but dr says we should wait till she at least 8 weeks. Is there anything that helps? has anyone started baby on this so early. She is not sleeping through the night because of this.

Answer 1

Did you try breast feeding her? That'll probably clear the "not full" problem right up. Just try not to eat anything really spicy, take any medication, or drink any alcohol for at least 12 hours before doing so.

Answer 2

I have four children and I breast feed for around six months but then I switched to formula. I used Similac with my oldest and she was gas and developed a severe case of reflux, and even had boughts of diarrhea and constipation. I finally switched her to Good Start, and all the problems went away. I used Good Start for my other three also and never had any more problems. In regard to her sleeping through the night she is still quite little and it is normal for her to get up. 3of mine all slept through the night at 4-6 weeks old and 1 of them got up every night until she was 2 1/2. It doesn't always have to do with them not getting enough to eat, and each child is different. As for introducing cereal I always wait until they are at least 4 months old.

Answer 3

I would try to make sure that she is getting burped between each feeding. If you are feeding her say 4oz each feeding, & she is still hungrey you might want to try to up the formula to like 41/2 oz every feeding or 5 oz every feeding. I had the same problem with my son. I up'ed the formula, & it worked he was getting enough, & was at his full point. You need to make sure that if your daughter is still sucking on the bottle even after the formula is done than you know you need to make the bottle bigger so she will have her fill now mind you it may cause her to sleep longer, & that is not a bad thing, you can get her on a scedule Example: Say if you where to feed her 4 oz's of formula at 7 a.m than her next feeding wouldn't be untill 11 am., & if you where to up the formula 1oz more than if you where to feed her at say 9am than her feeding wouldn't be until 2 p.m, & so forth. I hope that this information is a bit helpful on your end I know what you are going through since I am a mother myself.

Answer 4

Don't start her on cereal...it is WAY TOO EARLY (4 months minimum)!!!! Babies this age can't and shouldn't sleep through the night, their tummies are only the size of a chick pea. She will need to wake every three to four hours to feed and will continue to do so for probably another month or so. My 9 month old daughter still gets up once a night to feed. If she is sucking on the bottle continuously, is she truly hungry or does she just need to suck? Try a soother or your pinky finger. If she still fusses, she is hungry. Babies this age will not over eat, they will spit up if they eat too much. She is just telling you what she needs. It will get easier. I promise.

Answer 5

Every baby is different. If she is hungry...she is hungry. Try the cereal in her bottle. She may not tolerate it very well. If she doesnt then try Carnation Goodstart with DHA and ARA iron fortified with comfort proteins. My son was having trouble with gas and digestion because he was a premie. We swithched his formula 4 times before we finally found this one and it is wonderful. He now goes to bed at night around 8:30pm and sleeps until 6am. Good luck.

Answer 6

extremely, i'm uncertain why you does not purely feed her extra... Spitting up isn't a function of being overly finished. it is a function of having air jumbled mutually with the nutrition. while the air comes up, nutrition comes with it. If she's nevertheless hungry, then feed her, for goodness sakes! extremely, at this age, they only eat while they are extremely hungry, so which you will not supply her too lots. For what it is worth, she's somewhat too youthful to be eating solids, in accordance to the experts. curiously, feeding stable meals in the previous they are 4 months previous can deliver approximately pulmonary problems (interpret this as SIDS), as properly as an inclination to have extra nutrition-based hypersensitive reactions. additionally, the experts say that giving them stable nutrition at bedtime would not extremely help them sleep - that she'd be drowsing frequently for the time of the evening at this element of her existence besides.

Answer 7

It is okay to add a little rice cereal to her milk. I have 3 girls and all started with the rice early. They are not overweight or anything if that is a concern and it will definetly help with the sleeping through the night !! Good luck !!

Answer 8

That rice cereal is the ticket. I had one gassy little crank who never, that I could tell, slept or was happy. Wouldn't nurse, hated the bottle. Once we added the tiny bit of cereal to the bottle (made the hole a tiny bit bigger) she was a new and wonderful baby!!! She's 21 now and very beautiful and even MORE wonderful! Good luck!

Answer 9

i started my son on it when he was 4 weeks. He's a big healthy baby, and my second big healthy baby. Doctors say what they say to avoid a law suit. You're the mom... you have insticts. And you're insticts say you're baby is hungry. Do you really think it's going to hurt her to put some rice cereal in her bottle? Give her a little... not too thick at first and see how she reacts. By all means if you think she is acting adversely then take her to the e.r. But I bet she sleeps better than ever!

Answer 10

Tons and tons of babies don't sleep through the night at 6 weeks. In fact, it's a rare baby that does. "Not getting full enough" is not the problem. It's her stomach capacity that's the limiting factor!