More formula issues...:(

Are you also offering her just plain water regularly throughout the day?

Hmm, I think because the weather is warming up and she sounds pretty constipated it should be safe enough to offer small amounts of water several times a day. Sorry I can't remember exactly how much a 3 month old should be drinking - you could phone Healthline 0800 611 116 to ask?

But it could also be the brand of formula that's making her constipated and so you could try a different one.

Another suggestion would be to express for a short time (to collect the watery foremilk) and offer that several times per day instead of plain water?

You could add a little bit more water into her bottles. Maybe 5 mls. Ollie wouldn't take water on it's own until recently (and he's five months!) so we just added a tiny bit extra to his bottle. It certainly hasn't done him any harm - and neither did the brown sugar the one time I've used it. Both seem to have worked for us. We've also been through a number of different formulas trying to find the best for him.

Good luck - I'm sure you will find the answer soon.

I also added 10mL of water to each bottle, Chloe has only just started sipping water on it's own recently. Now that she's a on solids I've been giving her stewed up prunes every few days which really helps. Other than that we tried the brown sugar thing, and then got some Duphalac from the Dr which we gave her about once a week until things came right a bit (she got more constipated when she started on solids).

Caden turns his nose up at water quite often, thats why we added to his bottles it was the only way to get it into him.

He will sip it a little bit now but still not a lot.

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Not sure what formula you are using at the moment, but when I first tried Ems on formula we started with the Karicare from birth sachets. I found after a couple of days that Ems was looking really uncomfortable, squirming alot and struggling to poop, even though that was only on one bottle feed (the rest BF). So I found a different formula called Farleys Golden From Birth. It's not as popular as some of the bigger brands as there are only a few tins of it stocked at a time in a couple of my local supermarkets. Once I put Ems on that she was much better and pooping normally again. I found it also mixes a lot better than the Karicare. Ems is up to 2 bottle feeds now, the rest still BF and so far no probs with the Farleys. If you want to try it you might have to hunt around the local supermarkets a bit. The tin is only half the size of the other brands, and it's blue and white with a yellow rattle on the front.

Im using Karicare Gold at the moment which is supposed to be easy to digest - yeah right!

I will give her another few days and then think about changing.

Denny, we have Ollie on the plain old S26 rather than the Gold version and it's been fine. We also tried Nestle Nan which was alright too.

I think as some of the others have said, different baby's do seem to manage different formula better than others. It's a bit of a pain but it's all a bit of trial and error.

And re the water,..if you can get her to drink water on it's own that's great - Ollie would just cry so adding it to the bottles was easier. Now that he can manage a sippy cup he is happy drinking water but he wouldn't take it from a bottle (I guess he expected formula and so was dissappointed when it wasn't!).

Yeah Ive heard the Gold ones cause constipation aswell so i never put Caden on them(except the NAN gold for a week and he was SOO terribly unhappy and in pain) thats when we tried S26 the plain one and he has been super good.