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CDing and Spitting Up?

thailajothailajo
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I have noticed that while on vacation (and using pampers) my baby girl's spit up has pretty much ceased.  We Cloth Diaper exclusively at home, and she spits up pretty much constantly. We usually just use prefolds inserted into thirsties covers....do you think they are putting too much pressure on her little tummy? Any suggestions as to another type to try that would not do this?

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Re: CDing and Spitting Up?

  • andrealynn0707andrealynn0707 member

    If they are putting that much pressure on her belly they are probably too tight. I don't see how they could be contributing to spitup otherwise. 

    I know my DD pretty much stopped spitting up a lot right around 4 months, so it might just be developmental.  

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  • hamilton.jahamilton.ja

    The reflux/spitting up is coming from an immature esophageal sphincter that spasms and allows the contents of the stomach to be regurgitated - sometimes forcefully. The pressure from the diapers would not affect it in any that I can think of.

    It might just be that she is starting to age out of it. 

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  • papagenapapagena member
    Someone else mentioned something like this being an issue for her DC, we've never had an issue - DS wasn't much of a spitter-uper, as it were. Maybe try it a bit loser, if possible?  Sorry!
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    OK thanks ladies! Her pediatrician gave her some zantac and said she would outgrow it, I just hadn't really wanted to give her the medicine and she suddenly stopped so I hoped maybe we had found the cause! I'm going to start back with cloth this week and try a little looser fit....and take it from there!
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  • hamilton.jahamilton.ja
    If she seems better and doesn't need the Zantac that is great. My son took it from 3-15 months and then from about 18-20 took prevacid becuase the reflux came back. I will hope for you for a much better outcome!
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    imagethailajo:
    OK thanks ladies! Her pediatrician gave her some zantac and said she would outgrow it, I just hadn't really wanted to give her the medicine and she suddenly stopped so I hoped maybe we had found the cause! I'm going to start back with cloth this week and try a little looser fit....and take it from there!

    The zantac won't stop the spitting up. It only neutralizes the stomach acid that causes pain from infant acid reflux not the spitting up itself. So if she's not in any discomfort from it then I wouldn't give her the medicine. Ds was a crazy spitter upper but it never bothered him and he just grew out of it - which is pretty common. DD only sometimes spits up but would cry during and after eating and seem otherwise miserable throughout the day. She's on Zantac and much happier for it but still spits up since it doesn't do anything to mature the sphincter muscle. 

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    imagethailajo:
    OK thanks ladies! Her pediatrician gave her some zantac and said she would outgrow it, I just hadn't really wanted to give her the medicine and she suddenly stopped so I hoped maybe we had found the cause! I'm going to start back with cloth this week and try a little looser fit....and take it from there!

    The zantac won't stop the spitting up. It only neutralizes the stomach acid that causes pain from infant acid reflux not the spitting up itself. So if she's not in any discomfort from it then I wouldn't give her the medicine. Ds was a crazy spitter upper but it never bothered him and he just grew out of it - which is pretty common. DD only sometimes spits up but would cry during and after eating and seem otherwise miserable throughout the day. She's on Zantac and much happier for it but still spits up since it doesn't do anything to mature the sphincter muscle. 

    This. I should have mentioned it but yeah, it won't stop the spitting up, it just makes them more comfortable if they're in obvious discomfort from it. 

     

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