I’m not a medical professional so I cannot provide medical advice for people. Aside from that I have a large knowledge on different formulas from Basic Milk based formulas, like Similac Advanced, to soy formulas, and special and special formula like the difference between powder and liquid. They contain different ingredients and are all based on the needs of certain babies. Again, only recommendations could be provided if anything along with a reasonable reason why. I would love to help any mommies out there who don’t quite know what steps to take, or what options are out there, but I would not want to tell someone to switch formula without a dr recommendation, because that’s that the AAP says. I would be more than willing to share stories or experiences on my behalf that may help other women find what will work for their babies.

My experience: When my son was 8 days old he had a rash on his chin, a nurse told me it might be a dairy rash. Fast forward >> My son is 10 weeks old. He cries every time I breastfeed him, he breaks out in hives, he sounds wheezy, his little tummy... it made noises like bubbling acid. He smelled, not like a dirty diaper, like he was fermenting it was so sad and so horrible. Here was this happy baby who couldn’t enjoy eating because it was so hard for him to digest milk. We tried so many things. But in the end I, myself, came to the conclusion that almost all powder formulas contain high fructose corn syrup. But there a certain liquid formula for milk sensitive babies. (Similac Alimentum) which is an extremely broken down milk proteins that are easy for the baby to digest. Once we leaped to that all my babies problems disappeared. We tried the same formula in the powder version and it does not work. To this day the absolute cause is unknown, we are doing testing again at 1 year. But the solution what that specific liquid formula. I tried to cut dairy out of my diet and continue to pump and breastfeed but personally, it got very hard and he still would react to my milk. He’s almost 11 months old and doing very well still on the formula.