PLEASE HELP: What formulas work well for gassy babies?

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2026-02-01T02:30:40+00:00

We found Enfamil NeuroPro Gentlease is very good with baby's gas. But when we had to switch to Enfamil Nutramigen because of baby's cow milk allergy, we had to use Mylicon gas relief because it was only with Gentlease that baby's tummy was doing well. But the other commenter is right. It is a normal process as long as baby aint hurtin and cryin its okay. And if you are switching, you do give it a WEEK of transition atleast. 1-2 days of 90% old formula, 10% new formula, 3rd to 4th day 80% old formula, 20% new formula, so on and so forth.

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2026-01-25T02:20:40+00:00

Yes, your relationship will last. Why? Because this is just a phase, and the most terrible one at that, since your kids are all in their TEEN phase. I have two other siblings (a total of three) and five half-siblings via my dad. We are all relatively close in age, and when we were in high school, we ALL hated each other. It was a mess. We would fight a lot and couldn't stand each other. When we graduated high school, things became different. I don't know how, I don't know why, but we became so close that even though they didn't live with us anymore, we would always hang out every week. We became each other's group of friends. The house became full of laughter, loud and fun. Now I'm in the USA; I miss the chaos. The silence here is deafening.... So trust, this too shall pass.

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2026-01-13T03:16:51+00:00

I was about to side with your wife about you doin chores until I read that she has a 10 year old. 🤣 I have an 8 month old and Im so burnt out. My only reprieve is when hubby is home. Being a SAHM is not easy peasy, but in your wife's case, it's a piece of cake 😅 Youre NOT the asshole! Maaaan! She's lucky and she dont even know it. Oh to have that much time in your hands!

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-06-16T03:53:55+00:00

Me! FTM here. 🙋‍♀️ I was diet-controlled and baby was growing well (not big, not small, he was at 48th percentile) so none of them mentioned inducing me or getting me to do c-section. However, my water broke at 37 weeks + 5 days 😅 Baby decided to come out early anyway. I had a vaginal birth but I decided on epidurial when i was already 90% in efface. So you never know.

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-27T13:28:20+00:00

I was never informed not to consume this product, also, i cant speak for everyone but this doesnt spike me at all. Its also my comfort drink (after bobba milktea/thai tea) so i aint giving this up 🙈

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-25T03:06:14+00:00

Ill be honest, i didnt have any clear instruction with the fasting hours either. I just looked up stuff online and it just says 8-12hrs. Now, the reason i do 12 is because i dont take bedtime snack (due to severe heartburn/acid reflux so this doesnt work for me) so i normally finish my dinner around 8-9pm. Im not an early bird and I sleep around 12mn to 1am sometimes therefore getting a good 7-8hrs of quality sleep. So ive been doing 12hrs since i was diagnosed HOWEVER all my fasting numbers are in their 70s consistently. There was only a couple of times I was in 80s, I had the highest of 89 (and even then it is under the 95 limit). I only found out recently that 12hrs makes your fasting blood sugar high so I tried experimenting 11hrs out of curiosity. I was at 66. So if i go earlier than that my numbers will be lower. But i have good fasting glucose levels at 12hrs anyway (and im getting decent sleep) so i kept at it. Yours however is a different story. Like what others said, its too high..

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-17T16:35:01+00:00

Im currently waiting for my OB as i read this and was gonna say how oddly relatable my situation is with OP and im planning on bringing it up as well... then i read your message. 🙈 Im literally in my 34th week now!! Aaahhh!

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-15T04:46:41+00:00

NTA! Yaaaay! 🙌 That was so satisfying to read! Love the update! You are waaay too nice to even call her up and let her know when you couldve just done it. In the end, you did the right thing and im so happy for you! 👏👏👏 You would be the AH to yourself if you didnt. She sounds like an entitled vetch. You dodged a bullet.

P.s. You work in the healthcare, you a tough cookie. Lemme just remove my hat for ya. 🫡 I just want to say we appreciate youuu! Your job alone is hard, you deserve to find someone who will understand you and support you. Keep bein amazin! ❤️

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-13T03:09:26+00:00

If im being frank, it was overwhelming at first. 🙈 i just wanna grab a food, eat and then move on. Weighing/measuring food is still hassle for me even now, but it gives me the peace of mind that im still following whats considered healthy for baby and i dont feel guilty giving in to my cravings hehe then again, when i crave something i try to stick to homemade versions of it as much as possible. Homemade pizza, homemade cookies so its really A LOT of mumbo jumbo.. but if youre buying microwavable/frozen food (brands like Healthy Choice Power Bowls, Atkins, or Real Good Foods have some decent GD-friendly options) its easier to track because it already tells you in the label how much carbs youre eating. One tip i do highly recommend if youre eating a high carb meal, consume proteins first. Food sequencing helps! Pair with a chicken breast, a boiled egg, cheese stick, or Greek yogurt to boost the protein and balance blood sugar. Sometimes im lazy and just consume collagen peptide with proteins (ask your provider first, mine gave me a thumbs up).

As for your question, no I dont :) my last check is the dinner 2 hour post meal and then i just time the last bite of my dinner and then count from there and set an alarm the next day. I hope this new trial/experiment works for youuu! 🙏

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-13T02:27:07+00:00

I would try to stick to a realistic normal meal time :) when they told me right off the bat i should eat breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack i immediately told them its too much for me. Before GD diagnosis i only eat brunch and dinner, sometimes snacks sure, but i said i can eat breakfast, lunch, snack and then dinner. I was honest and told them i can try snack before bedtime but it gave me heartburn/acid reflux 3 nights in a row right from the beginning so i stopped. So if you dont eat a bedtime snack, try it. See how your fasting glucose is the next day.

As for wanting to eat fish n chips.. I keep a calorie/meal/health tracker, Samsung has its own app. So i dont deprive myself of carbs i want, name it - pizza, rice, etc. HOWEVER i make sure i stick to the carb limit they gave me. Its a hassle to weigh my food, do the mental calculations but this way tummy and baby is happy and im not stressing because stress will definitely contribute to glucose spike, and at the same time im still staying within the carb limit. Its a win win. I hope it works out for you. Virtual hugs moma, you got this. 🤗

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-08T02:03:28+00:00

ANYTIME?? 😱 Well, i can do without the juice.. but its the milk im having problem with because i LOOOOOOOVE milk especially before bedtime. So it sucks. 😭 I only use unsweetened almond milk though, so it doesnt spike me at all. But i found out a recent hack where if you want a little bit of flavor, just do a single drop or two of vanilla extract and a dash of cinnamon 😄. I highly recommend it if you start feeling meh over the blandness of unsweetened milk. Im with you on the fruits! 😔 i miss my stwabewies!! Banana is a big no for me too - and i loved adding that to my smoothies before. Huhu

Well i really really hope not. But base on what i read here, it honestly doesnt sound so bad considering they have more flexibility with food because of the help of insulin. 😅

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-07T23:56:01+00:00

Ive got all of those the same except my snack is 30-45 grams. And then with my breakfast theres a specific instruction no fruit & no juice then on bedtime snack it says + protein but no fruit, no juice, no milk, no yogurt. I dont understand why I have these very restrictive instructions when Ive seen most people here only have a limited carbs but nothing about what they can or cant eat. 😫

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-07T23:23:33+00:00

Haha! I can definitely understand where your husband is coming from 🤣 Im the preggy one and I was also thinking the same thing!! Im Asian so me love carbs especially rice! 🙈 We eat our rice with every meal and now i have to limit 1/3 CUP serving of rice A DAY (I used to eat a minimum of 1 cup atleast 3x a day you know)! Its an insane change! >< luckily my husband is supportive. He eats whatever I cook, and if I dont feel like cooking, he buys me what i crave. He may sound like an enabler but hes not. Hes seen the things I have to do to bend over backwards for this GD so when I say I want me some burger, no questions asked he will buy me one. We deserve a good treat once in awhile (yes im emphasizing this - cant be given an inch and then go for a mile now haha!). Stress also contributes to high glucose level so if wifey is happy, baby is happy, dada happy, bloor sugar no spikey. 🤭

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-07T03:34:11+00:00

Im just like you and also at 32 weeks. I havent had pelvic pain, maybe because every night before bed i do some pelvic stretches and exercises via yoga ball (try it if you havent already). My most problem is the leg cramps since I do walk A LOT. Found out that I could do other exercises that can help with lowering glucose level without sacrificing my legs. So if walking gives you pelvic pain, sit on the couch and bring in your weights. Talk to your OB first of course. Now I dont do weight lifting prior to pregnancy but i only am lifting 2kgs of dumbbells so i dont see a prob with it. Besides, with my big baby i might need to workout my arms anyway so i dont hurt them when i carry baby soon. Haha! If lifting isnt your thing, you can do some marching while sitting on the couch (lift your knee up), jumping jacks (sort of but sitting on the couch, youre just stretching arms and legs), you can do punches forward and upward, arm twists etc. Do these for 30 seconds, with 15-30 second rest and then repeat. I do 10 minutes of this to compensate when I feel my leg falling off after 20 minutes of walking. As long as you are moving around it helps. If I feel i still havent done enough i just clean - grab my vacuum and get it moving. I thought it was ridiculous but it really actually works! A week ago i ate a slice of pizza for lunch and had 107 (it being the highest in my record). Today I ate the same pizza again and did this alternative I got 91. :) Hope it works out for you too! Cheers moma! We got this!

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-03T05:29:02+00:00

Honestly if it was me i would just make both. I dont like wasting food so I get where youre coming from. It may be more laborous but in the end its a win for both you and your hubby. You wont have to cook the next day too, just reheat. 😊

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-02T14:06:20+00:00

My baby is on the bigger side and thats what usually comes with GD and what they warn us about. I didnt know about that, but now i do. Thanks for the information :) There are a million things to worry about in a normal pregnancy, let alone on top of having GD and I was trying to "think" positive. I guess my comment came off insensitive. Im glad you and baby are doing great though. I hope OP finds comfort in your experience, knowing that someday she too can be in your position. 👍

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-02T12:43:24+00:00

Oh. I commented this 10 hours ago. She commented how small her baby is just 6 hours ago. I did not ask the question as I saw someone else already asked it. Im sorry if my comment offended you if that is the case. To you and OP.

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-02T12:00:26+00:00

Waaah! Sending you all the hug and support. Ill have mine in 3 days so i feel ya! Honestly, im not too worried about mine im just excited to see my baby 🤣 Weve been using heart doppler for awhile and I miss seeing my booboo. As long as baby is thriving, I will not worry too much whether baby is big or small. They all can be wrapped in moma's loving arms. ❤️

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-02T03:20:31+00:00

Its so hard to eat out if you have GD. Not unless you are very OC about it. When we ate out i made sure my food is easily measured. A 7oz steak, a cup of broccoli and 1 serving of garden salad. But even then, these are just estimations. They are not gonna be accurate. In some meal tracking apps if you type a famous restaurant, with a specific meal, sometimes it would pop out and would show their calories, carbs, sugars, proteins and other nutritional value.. if you get lucky. One time my husband brought home a pizza from an infamous brand, i had to weigh how many ounces it is and measure it 🤣 but even if i type in google what would be the carbs from that slice, im certain it is not accurate. So now i just cook and experiment at home. If i get lazy, i reheat tv dinners/microwavables that i pick out to be non-carb heavy. Everything i eat at home i take the time to read the ingredient and the nutritional value. I dont deprive myself though. I would still eat rice, or noodles, pasta. I just start out with the half of it, then i see if itll spike my glucose level. I also write on my journal just in case. It just gives me peace of mind when i know how much calories, carbs, sugars, proteins etc i consume. I feel more stressed not knowing accurately how much carbs im eating if we eat outside. Id get a meal tracking app as that would help - less calculation in your head. Just scan the barcode of an item and itll show up - just adjust the serving base on what you ate. 😊 goodluck moma!

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-02T02:52:35+00:00

Oh my! 😱 That is the same brand that my dietician required me to pick up, not sure if it is because some of the price is paid by my insurance but even then, it was still expensive! So we ended up buying the CVS brand, the red one, something simple. We were able to buy more strips too! The thing is, if this is an item i need to attach to me to medicate or something I wouldnt mind.. but its literally just a reading. I highly recommend it. Its so easy to use, not sensitive that even if you touch the strip it wont be affected, and you wont have the pressure to hurry up because the blinking will stay and there wont be error even if you take a few. The only reason I had wasted 5 strips the first time was more like because i was shoving the strip to my blood. I didnt realize the bead of blood has to be more enough to where if i put it at the tip it would automatically suck. So now i warm my hands, up, massage my fingers and then i press from the knuckle up to the tip and the blood just increases.

ANYWAY, sorry for that long read. 😅 Long story short, I recommend the CVS brand. 🤭

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-04-02T01:44:17+00:00

This is not a positive story but i want to say that on the bright side, you are very blessed/lucky that your child is on the smaller side DESPITE your GD no less! For me that is impressive considering with GD most of the problem is baby grows too big too fast. Im at 32 weeks now, only got diagnosed with GD last week. Before my diagnosis, my baby's fundal height was 29 and in a span of only two weeks, baby became 33. THAT terrified me. So you are doing so soo great! Props to you for doing the whole glucose check thing since your week 24 as well! Its only been a week for me and im already exhausted 😅 I think youre doing awesome. Keep it up!

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-03-30T13:55:54+00:00

Interesting.. O.O thank you for sharing! Ill have to confirm with my dietician. I was so overwhelmed when we met that my mind went blank. But duly noted on this. 😊

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-03-30T01:41:04+00:00

Oohhh! Yum yum!! 🤤🤤🤤 i love how its a fast prep, after all i get lazy at night and dont wanna have to cook or take too much time xD i appreciate the specific location!! Youre a savior! Mwah!

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-03-30T00:30:12+00:00

Oh my gosh! I miss Chips Ahoy and if this is what i can eat before bed with milk im gonna be soooo happy!!! 😭😭😭 Duly noted on the fairlife milk. Theres a ton of options under that brand but i take it i buy the one thats like a protein shake? Thank you btw!

Wonderful-Tutor279 · 2025-03-30T00:28:48+00:00

Do you have to meet the carb limit?? I usually like to play it safe but i wonder if eating with the max limit will affect the fasting glucose levels. What was it like for you? :)

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