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We used the regular blue can similac, I always wondered about the supplement one too

We started using the Supplementing one but R had a milk protein intolerance. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing as Similac Advance....pretty sure.

@rahlyrah: yes, to make supplementing moms "feel better" about using formula. I just liked the green wrapping.

@BabyBoecksMom: Definitely a gimic. We used the Up & Up gentle, which is the generic for Enfamil Gentlease. Worked well for us!

Similac for Supplementation is definitely just a marketing tactic. We started with Similac Sensitive but it is actually just lactose free and very few babies really have lactose intolerance/sensitivity so we switched to Similac Total Comfort which breaks down the actual dairy proteins. I was a Total Comfort apologist for a long time because I felt like it resolved her terrible gas, though looking back I think it just coincided with when she started to outgrow her colic.

Right now we are feeding her Enfamil Soy (Prosobee) because she had bad diarrhea & couldn't tolerate milk-based formula, and we've had a hard time going back. The Prosobee is just what samples our pediatrician gave us. I am not thrilled about having to use soy but if we try to switch again & it doesn't go well, I might put her on Earth's Best organic soy.

By the way, we had to supplement from day 5, I never was able to EBF & my LO is 8 months old now & loves to nurse, so you can totally do both if that's what you want

We supplemented at 7 months with Enfamil Prosobee, now we're nursing about twice a day and twice a night, she takes two bottles of Kirkland now.

We use enfamil newborn and now we use enfamil infants.

Sooo I don't know if there's any difference between what you'd use for supplementing and just regular formula feeding but we had issues with Similac Sensitive, which we used in the very beginning with pumped breast milk, and they were solved by Gerber Good Start Gentle. Similac Sensitive was frothy and just did not sit well in lo's tummy. I've kind of looked into the Supplementation one just because I saw it in the store, and it definitely seemed like a marketing thing.

@Mae: how are you going with nursing now?

@Kemma: After a rough rough weekend of refusing to nurse, our LC had us take a nursing break on monday and try again yesterday intermittently with bottle feeding. I nursed her 4 times, 2 she did great (better than before clipping), 1 was about the same as prior to the clipping, and 1 was pretty bad. So I think there is some improvement but it is just slow going. It also seems like she does the best if she's very awake and hungry but not SUPER hungry. If she's tired or super hungry she has a harder time.

Similac with the blue top when I supplemented the first weeks. We also used Earth's Best around 9 months with LO 1.

We use nestle good start with probiotics. We tried combining some costco brand in there but when ran out of good start and used only costco brand, LO was super fussy.

We used Gerber good start gentle when I had to supplement with my first. With my second we've given that to him twice and seems good so far. I suspect when I go back to work in a few weeks he will need it more because I'm pretty sure my supply sucks.

We use Enfamil. We used to supplement then I lost my supply and we're EFF. I looked at the ingredients of Enfamil for supplementing, and they were actually different and I didn't like it as much. The first ingredient for regular Enfamil is non-fat milk. The first two for the supplementing one are corn syrup solids and partially hydrolyzed nonfat milk and whey protein concentrate solids.