How did you choose your formula?

To get Gabriella reedy for daycare I hope to start topping her up with formula in mid to late july and she has never had formula before....

How did you all choose which formula to use...and why???

I got afew sachets and tried them. Both my kids seem to have iron guts so never had a problem with any of them in all honesty.

I had a few sachets of the S26 and found that although we had no problems with it, it smelt terrible! Could just be me though.

We are using Karicare starter, just the normal one, not the Gold one. We tried Heinz Nurture Gold for a week and had the week from hell, Sam was terribly constipated, fussy with feeding, wouldn't sleep, wouldn't burp.. So we switched back to Karicare and he is fine again!

We have always used Heinz nurture starter because when Kobe was in NICU they recommended it as his stomach couldnt handle the S26. Something to do with the whey dominate thing which they said would be a bit gentler on his tummy as its not so heavy. When Addison was born we gave her the hospital S26 but she was really spilly so got hubby to bring in a tin of nurture starter and she was sweet.

We had a few sachets of Karicare regular and Heinz Nurture in the cupboard for 'just in case' when we were still breastfeeding. Turns out we needed them! When putting Ashlee on to full time formula, we tried Karicare and that just did not go well with her (had all sorts of constipation problems, wind issues etc). So tried her on Heinz Nurture and she's been on it since with no problems at all.

You'll obviously get loads of varying opinions here, but it's the best place for information on formula! I struggled to find any information on the stuff.

My milk was slow to come in so in hospital they gave Gina Kericare so that's the one we bought to top her up. We buy the Gold Plus - supposedly better but then we don't use much so it hardly makes a difference. I think you'll probably be better off to try a few and see which one Gabriella prefers - Gina hated one I got from the pharmacy and we haven't tried anything else.

I have been told that each time you try them on a different formula, it's like changing their whole diet so it will take a bit of getting used to for their little tummies, and being bunged up is probably normal in the initial trial of a new formula. But if the problems last longer than a few days or a week or so, then it's probably time to try something else.

Just my opinion! I'm by no means a formula professional LOL

Faraway wrote: How long do you try a different formula for before you know if its working? We have Kaleb on S26 gold at moment but he has difficulty pooing (sorry!) and it is green so thought it would be good to try BUT otherwise he's ok - would trying just one sachet of a different brand be enough to tell? Or would I need to do a few days worth?

I'm no expert here, but I noticed after only two days that he wasn't his usual self after changing to Heinz Nurture Gold. It took me a further couple of days to realise that it might be the formula, so I switched back after just under a week and within two days again he was back to normal. It takes a little while for it to completely get out of their system.