If you’ve ever smelt or tasted an amino acid-based formula, you know that it’s pretty awful. Luckily our babies, especially before 5 months, don’t have a very mature palette yet so it’s not as bad as you might think if your baby is already drinking an amino acid formula because they are likely to accept a different brand fairly easily. Ensure you follow the instructions on the tin for making up the formula. Scoop sizes can vary between brands.  - Here are some ideas to help make the switch: - Offer the formula when the baby is really hungry or quite sleepy. - Offer it repeatedly over the course of several days. - Offer formula instead of food for a few days so your baby needs to drink to be satisfied. - Remain calm, it takes patience by the person feeding the baby to encourage them to accept the new taste. Our babies are smart, they can pick up on body language more than you might realize.  Note that it is important to record how much formula the baby takes in a day until they are taking adequate amounts.