SMA Staydown Milk

When my eldest daughter was 6 weeks old I decided to stop breatsfeeding and start her with baby milk. This was due to a variety of reasons, but what I hadn't expected was that my daughter would have severe reflux and in the end be hospitialised because of - but thats another story! After speaking to our health visitor, we were asked to try SMA Staydown to see if it helped. It did! I went from being sicked on after every bottle (and a full bottles worth!) to a few sicky burps here and there. Brilliant! Well no not quite! SMA Staydown is actually extremely hard to get hold off. I found it in my local Boots but they were only ordering 6 tins at a time, and after I was ...  Read the complete review

My daughter had the worst case of reflux I have ever come accross. She was on SMA gold which just drenched me every day and night! Then after a few other trials I found Staydown, its thick and gloopy, you need to buy a wider teat so your baby can actually drink it but it works! Put an end to all of our suffering. I recomend it to all.

For personal reasons, I began bottle feeding my first baby at around one month, shortly afterwards he was diagnosed with a condition called reflux, which essentially means (in laymums terms) that the 'flap' on the tummy that should close to keep milk/food down, doesn't. No-one could really advise why my baby had this condition, but it's fairly common it seems, though it is easily distinguished from a bit of spit up, as baby struggles to drink the milk in the first place. My son always seemed desperate for his milk, but just couldn't drink it. He'd cry whilst drinking, fight with the bottle, and then vomit back virtually everything he'd taken. Initially I ...  Read the complete review