Infacol or Colief?

My baby is 1month and struggles with trapped wind. She’s also quite an unsettled baby in general. We were using infacol with every feed and I’m not sure how effective it was. So we were recommended Colief and advised not to go for gripe water. I EBF and don’t express so using Colief is SUCH A HEADACHE! I just use milk catchers and then mix less dose into the collected milk and feed in a bottle before feeding her. I also can’t do it for every feed, maybe just 2-3 feeds in the day. It’s a lot of effort for something that may not work. If this worked for you, how long did it take to notice? And also do you think I should stop bothering with it because im not managing each feed and the doses are less too sometimes? (eg. 2 drops instead of 4 because I haven’t collected enough milk). Would really appreciate some opinions!

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Colief was the best for us..Infacol didn’t do anything. I know what you mean about being a headache…i used to pump and drop colief into bottles but with ebf..is more difficult..i also didn’t used al the time as my baby used to breastfeed at night but after 3 months unfortunately i had to go to formula and used then colief a bit more..i think they will still be having trapped wind anyway doesn’t matter what you used…i just found Colief too help a bit.

I used infacol, it did work for me but gripe water worked a treat. Why was it recommended not to use it? Just curious.

@Selina I gave up on colief now because it’s too much headache for me as I’m EBF. Well I didn’t realise how controversial gripe water was until I saw a post here on peanut about it! There’s a lot of complaints about it being a choking hazard which I agree with as my nephew choked on it when he was a few months and I had to do CPR! Also someone said the A&E Dr told them don’t bother with gripe water it’s not evidence backed enough. And someone said they have ingredients like bicarbonate which creates gas itself and then baby burps/farts making you think it’s working. But who knows! There was some other points I can’t remember and It just put me off😅 x

I’m hoping with just infacol and lots of tummy massage and gas releasing techniques, I’ll manage 😅 x

Oh my! I didn’t realise! Yes - it will pass! It’s only when they are really small. It’s rough but it will pass x

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