Need advice on LO spitting up BM

HeartsOnABand

Tomorrow our LO is going to be 2 weeks. He suffered from meconium aspiration after delivery and stayed one night and a day in the NICU where he was fed formula. He also spent 4 days spitting up mucus from the fluids he Injested and he had to be suctioned out by the nurses daily when we were in the hospital. After we got home I noticed the spitting up faded and it was maybe once a day if even.

I was really worried about not getting that initial skin on skin contact with him or having him on my breast right away and that they were feeding him formula but thankfully the formula had no adverse effects on his ability for him to latch on because he has a great latch and he still does. Our main problem is he has now started to spit up after every feeding. It's not just the curdled milk looking spit up it's as if he is literally just spitting up the BM and he is doing it after being on only one breast.

My initial thought was I'm over feeding him so I cut the time he was on each breast from 20 min to 10 to 15 min but he remained spitting up the milk. Then I tried just one breast per feeding and pumping the other and that still made no difference. The only other thing I can think of that can be wrong is he is having a reaction to something in my diet. I'm not eating poorly though. I eat tons of oats, yogurt, fruits and veggies, chicken for protein, and sandwiches. I think the worse thing I've eaten PP was a grilled cheese and fries and that was at the hospital.

I'm considering trying formula to see if he has the same reaction to it but I really really don't want to have to do that. He has his 2 weeks tomorrow so I'm going to ask the dr but I wanted to see if anyone had any advice or experience with what I'm going through.

TIA!

kiwi625

I don't have any advice but I wanted to say I totally sympathize with you. We are going through issues with copious spit up and it gets to be draining. Hopefully it's just normal and burping more often, and keeping him upright for a while after eating helps him. Good luck! 

jennyann28

DD spits up A LOT. It started when she was a couple weeks old, like your LO. At almost 4 months, it is finally starting to settle down, though we still have bad days like today, we've both been through 3 outfits.
As long as LO is gaining weight and having enough wet and poopy diapers spitting up is a laundry problem, not a health problem.