New mom, need advice with baby spitting up/vomiting?

Ok before anyone asks, yes I have taken my son to the pediatrician and gotten her professional opinion. I'm looking for some practical advice and/or suggestions.





My son is 5 weeks old. He was exclusively breastfed until about 1.5 weeks ago. He always spit up with my breastmilk, at least with every feeding. I started supplementing with formula because he was never getting enough from me. Anyway, I decided on a SOY based formula because of his spitting up, I figured this would be more gentle on his stomach.





Now he is completely on this formula. The spitting up has gotten worse, and he projectile vomits at least ONCE a day. We burp him BEFORE, DURING and AFTER every feeding. And we try not to move him after feeding him. We stop feeding when he stops eating, we try not to overfeed. We give him anywhere between 2-4 ounces (depending on how hungry he is) apprx. every 3 hours.





He does not have a fever, he has many wet diapers, and he has frequent bowel movements. He is also already 10 pounds (birth weight was 6 lbs. 15 oz). The doctor said that is great weight gain despite his spitting up/vomiting, which does not seem to faze him at all. He sleeps OK and is not continuously crying.





Sorry so long but I wanted to give all the details. The doctor said he is fine but just wanted some advice. Has anyone else experienced this? Should we try a MILK based formula to see how he does? I'm assuming he will spit up more, since I've head milk based formulas are harder to digest.





I know some babies are just spitters, but it's the vomiting that has me more worried. Thank you for reading and your answers!!New mom, need advice with baby spitting up/vomiting?
I had the same problem with my little girl she is younger though but she is on breast and formula ... but I found this to help me ALOT she hardly ever spits up anymore and when she would spit up she would spit up around 2 oz .... so try burping at every oz Worked WONDERS for us we also changed her bottle to dr browns so she was getting less air ... alot of that is air will make a baby spit up alot ( my dr gave me that advice hope it helps you )


GOOD LUCK !!!


Mommy of a week old baby girlNew mom, need advice with baby spitting up/vomiting?
I had the same issue with my son. Not so much with vomiting but definitely spitting up. He however was on a milk based formula. The recommendations I had were to start with the milk-based and then go to soy if that doesn't work. If he is gaining weight then he is getting some of it and keeping it down. I would try the milk-based and see if there is a difference.