What causes 6 weeks baby to be fussy about having formula milk?
Patient: i have a 6 week old daughter...no one in my house smokes. when we go to my in laws house (my mother in law smokes outside of the house only) my daughter gets fussy and doesnt like to drink her formula. She is normally a good baby and doenst fuss all that much and drinks her bottles like she should. everytime we go over there and she gets like that my mother in law insists i spoil her by holding her all day or that the formula is making her gassy or her tummy is bothering her. but when we are at home she is fine. my mother in law was watching her for a few hours the other day and when we went to pick the baby up she hadnt slept for more then 10 minutes and had only had about 5 oz of her formula. my husband and i are convinced it is the smoke that lingers on my mother in laws clothing and in the house that is affecting her and causing the fussiness...my mother in law thinks we are crazy is the lingered smoke be the cause of this? Doctor: I have carefully gone through the details. Although smoke could indeed be a cause of the fussiness of the child, it probably plays an independent role. It could be that formula milk itself is the cause of the fussiness. Let me emphasize on the fact that breast milk is the best possible feed for a baby and there are can be no alternatives for the same. Most formula milks are cow milk based and contain more proteins than the tender intestines can tolerate. Hence the formula milk itself could be the cause of the fussiness. I would strongly insist that you try to switch back to breast milk either in the form of breast feeding or as expressed breast milk. The production of breast milk is based on the child's demand and more the baby sucks on your breast, more would be the amount of breast milk produced.