Reflux tips

Synyster Shadow

Sorry to hear January... There really is nothing worse.. Our little one was put on neutramagen and its been a god send she loves it too..
Its true that different things work for different babies.. It major sucks that there is such a thing as reflux

Soooky

Poor baby and poor you Its very stressful when it happens - I remember crying trying to get our little one to feed. Its so horrible to see that they are hungry but can't eat At least your LO is still gaining weight - there was weight loss here & she's still pretty small for her age but thankfully the refusal to eat only lasted about 2/3 weeks. Have you been referred to a paediatrician?

cyning

Back in hospital with my four month old: has anyone else had a barium swallow? How did baby find fasting?

I'm so exhausted from it.

Rose35

My son had a barium swallow, he was 18 months at the time though so a little older than your little one, he had to drink it
from a beaker or his bottle, it was tough trying to get him to drink it but i just had to persuade him as much as I could, the having to lie perfectly still on the table for the xray was a challenge I along with the nurse had to hold him down but it was all over in minutes, the fasting was a nightmare and the hospital kept changing the times for him to go down to xray in the end I just cried with frustration for my child and this helped speed things up, best of luck

yellow hen

January I haven't read back through old posts do forgive me if I'm restating what others have said. Your little girl sounds exactly like our bit was. In the end, we went to crumlin and they witnessed the back arching and screaming, he was put straight into Zantac and it honestly changed out life at the time. He was on it for a few months and I stopped it once he was fully weaned to solids. At 18months now he could still vomit a bit if his morning bottle but he's not in pain so I don't mind. Hope you get some relief soon.

January

The back arching and screaming has stopped with the Staydown formula but he's still bringing a good bit of it back up and even 5 minutes before his next feed he's puking up his last one and it's all curdled

pwurple

A little bit before next feed is when refluxy babies often puke... I dunno did you get any reflux yourself when pregnant? I did, and it was always when i was hungry that i would throw up horrible bile stuff. Ended up having a pack of rice cakes on me all the time to stave off any sign of it.

I know it's a pain, but we found a very small feed between main feeds helped keep that down. A snack between feeds.

I have an unopened tin of staydown if anyone wants to pm me an address, i'll post it.

cyning

The barium went ok today... She has moderate reflux because she is gaining weight

But they want me to only breastfeed her every 3 hours: she's currently fed on demand and I think it's the frequent feeding which means she has gained weight. I just don't know whether it's the right thing to do to limit a 4 month old ebf baby and give her water between each feed or not. Breastfeeding advice is woeful alot of the time and I feel this is wrong but it's hard not to do what a doc says too!

January

I had the most horrible heart burn during pregnancy but that was it, I was knocking back gaviscon regularly. I wonder if there's any connection between that and the fact that he has reflux :eek:

Glad to hear the barium went well cyning. I wouldn't have a clue because I'm not breast feeding but maybe contact a lactation consultant and ask their opinion?

Suucee

January wrote: »

I had the most horrible heart burn during pregnancy but that was it, I was knocking back gaviscon regularly. I wonder if there's any connection between that and the fact that he has reflux :eek:

Glad to hear the barium went well cyning. I wouldn't have a clue because I'm not breast feeding but maybe contact a lactation consultant and ask their opinion?

I dont have reflux babies but still like a snoop. I died absolutely died with heartburn with no 1. Your talking drinking gavison from the bottle . Having acidy burps etc and she didnt have reflux. No 2 i had heartburn too but was bearable compared to no 1.

yellow hen

I didnt have heartburn really but baby had terrible reflux.

Roesy

I didn't have heartburn either. I keep reading/hearing about it being more common in quick/assisted deliveries. My lady was vacuum delivered.

yellow hen

Roesy wrote: »

I didn't have heartburn either. I keep reading/hearing about it being more common in quick/assisted deliveries. My lady was vacuum delivered.

Nope mine delivery was slow and unassisted but maybe i'm just an anomoly

nikpmup

Roesy wrote: »

I didn't have heartburn either. I keep reading/hearing about it being more common in quick/assisted deliveries. My lady was vacuum delivered.

Lol, mine was yanked out of the sunroof!!

pwurple

I had heartburn on both pregnancies, no reflux for baby 1. Baby 2 has it.

9 hour delivery, but she was induced at my 39 week checkup. I think myself it's just that muscle at the top of the tummy wasn't grown strong enough maybe. Maybe if she had another wk on the inside it would not have been as bad at the start. But hey, fluids were running low, and she is pretty much grown out of it now at 4 months. The odd episode, but nothing like the beginning.