Comments on: Switching from Similac Advanced to Sensitive Formula

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:36:32 +0000

Horrible day attempting to try similac sensitive! Right from the first bottle he was way mote fussy, hungry again in 1 hour and would not nap at all! I think I was being one of those moms that overreacts to a gassy fussy baby and I convinced myself that it was worse than it really was. Thinking about it now I realize that all babies are fussy and gassy at times and I need to relax! Went back to the similac advance tonight…hopefully that sensitive stuff is out of his system soon. I feel so bad for causing him discomfort today.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:27:13 +0000

We have our 3 month old on Similac Advance and we add Mylicon drops to each bottle. The drops alleviate almost all of his gas problems. My parents watch him during the day and my stepmom is against giving him the gas drops and refuses to give them to him, so she has to deal with him being super fussy all day. One day she decided (without notifying me) to switch his formula to the Similac Sensitive. He was fine the first two feedings, but when I got him back at the end of the day and I fed him one bottle of it, he threw up all over me and screamed until he burped. We stopped giving it to him after that. Also one day later he was completely constipated! Had I felt the need to switch his formula I would’ve talked to his doctor first. I agree with the doctor, you shouldn’t change the formula just because your baby has gas…ALL babies have gas!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:03:00 +0000

Sharon, you are actually doing really well making 3 – 4 hours a night at 5 weeks. Alexandria started making it most of the way through the night at two and a half to three months.

Basically the baby’s stomach isn’t big enough to hold a lot of food and since her diet is all liquid, it passes within a few hours, hence the need to feed once or twice during the night.

Once your baby gets big enough to hold more food in her tummy, she’ll make it longer stretches.

As for the formula, we went back to the Similac Advance with early shield. For the gas, just try to do a good job burping your baby during feedings and try the little tummies gas drops. We swear by them.

The Similac Sensitive I think just made things worse as it seems to have a thinner consistency that passes through the babies even faster than the regular.

let me know how it goes!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:20:50 +0000

I’m curious as to the outcome of your switch. Did you keep your baby on the Similac Sensitive or Similac Advance. I share your exact same story. Our baby is fussing maybe an hour out of the day and seems relieved when passing gas at times. I’ve switched today (10/19/090 to the Sim Sensitive and hope that I’m not making a mistake.
On the early shield (Similac reg form) we’re only making it 3-4 hrs at night with our 5 week old. I didn’t know if the formula was causing this or not. I hope you can respond.