Projectile vomiting baby - advice please

[nylonmeals]

In the past few days my 7 month old has had two enormous projectile vomiting sessions after his evening bottle.

After he's puked all over him and me and his grobag he seems fine - happy, smiling and babbling away.

But I am worried that maybe I am making him sick? Maybe I am feeding him too much food and then the bottle on top of that makes him puke (though he only has about 120oz) or I should still be sterilizing his bottles, or go back to boob instead of bottle for his evening feed? The bottle is a new thing for him and its only been in the past few days that he's actually drinking from it.

I will take him to the health visitor tomorrow but I wondered if any other mums had similar experiences or could offer me any advice.

Thanks!

[Pickle]

You say you've just switched to a bottle... maybe try a slower flow teat? It could be that he's taking the volume of milk a lot faster than previously when he was breast feeding, so it's just a bit much for his little tummy to take? Worth a try.

P x

[The Nappy Lady]

Yes, I agree - feeding too fast sounds like the most likely cause.

[nylonmeals]

Great advice - we are on the fastest teat. I didn't even think of that!

Really appreciate your thoughts.

(I am almost tempted to send my husband out to Sainsbury's NOW in the rain)

[charlottep]

it could definitely be the teat, especially if he's spluttering a little or milk is dribbling from the the corners of his mouth during his feed. one other thing to consider, have you switched to formula in the bottle feed? i've been weaning my daughter off the breast and onto formula and she was initially quite sicky with the increase in formula, although 3 weeks into it now and i'm seeing a big improvement. i think she just needed some time to adjust to the change in milk.

[nylonmeals]

Milk is dribbling out a lot so off this morning to get a slower teat. Hoping that does the trick.

Formula is new to him as well so the poor kid has a lot of changes to contend with.

Thanks again for advice!

[canadianlisa]

This happened to my girl as well when she had the bottle. One time it was in the car, while on holiday- nice. I switched back to the newborn teat and it seemed to help a little bit, but then to be honest we went back to breastfeeding as it was all too much of a hassle. I think with her it was just much more liquid all in one go than she was accustomed to from the breast. Now she is bigger (1) she is learned to take smaller sips from the bottle or cup and she barely ever is sick.

[Gussy]

Hi this happened for a few weeks with my dd when I went from breast to bottle. I agree with pp'ers, I think its a combination of the sudden large quantity of milk in the tummy and the change to formula. She was on a slow teat as well, so it just took time for her tummy to adjust. I used to have to put a large towel over my knee and half way over the sofa in case it all came back up. Took around 3 weeks to settle. Also try to get a decent gap between last meal and bottle. HTH x

[nylonmeals]

Consider yourselves baby-rearing geniuses!

With a slower teat and generally a slower approach to the feed, tonight was brilliant. I think that he had been so anti the bottle that sub-consciously I was really forcing him to go fast otherwise I thought that he wouldn't do it.

But tonight we stopped and read a story half way through, winded him properly and he had a full feed of 210 ml (which he has NEVER done before) and is now fast asleep hugging his moomin toy.

[Pickle]

Yippee! Glad to have managed to help :)

[canadianlisa]

Fantastic great to hear it all worked out well.

[peckhamboy]

Bit late now, but we had exactly the same issue when we moved from the newborn teat. Went back to newborn for a couple more weeks and everything was fine. Glad you seem to have got it sorted!