Please help! Really need some advice!

vborja25 · February 2013

So I posted this on the 0 to 3 months. Here it goes! I am a FTM of a beautiful baby girl who will be 12 weeks old on Sunday. We had it a little hard at the beginning due to BF and then switched to FF since LO was loosing too much weight....then she was very fussy, gassy and colicky. Then it got much much better when we finally ended up giving her similac Alimentum after trying 4 other different milk about 1 month ago. We went from a crying all the time baby to a very happy baby. She's been really good at sleeping all night, from 10pm to 6am, for the past month and a half, but was always a not so good napper during the day. From Sunday to Wednesday, she has woken up once a night for an extra feeding. I am thinking maybe a growth spurt. However, since Thursday, she had a last feeding at 6pm and has fallen asleep around 7:30 pm to 6am. Also, its been two days that she is having a harder time burping and yesterday, she cried as soon as I removed the bottle from her mouth to make her burp....an wouldn't burp. So I stood up and a huge burp came out of her and she cried, cried and cried. Once I tried to give her back the bottle, she wouldn't eat anymore and was very very fussy. Took my husband and I a very long time to make her sleep a little. It's almost like her burp hurted her so bad that she didn't want to eat anymore. Any advice on what might be the issue???!!! Sorry for the long post! It's just like when she is starting to get better, there's always something that comes up...I'm jut hoping it gets any easier. I hate to see her in pain. It breaks my heart. Sometimes, I feel like its me, doing something wrong. As a first time mom, I feel like I could be a better mom for her. I should be able to make her happy.

Kristen050 · February 2013

I'd say she went through a growth spurt. Now she is sleeping even better so I wouldn't worry about her going from 730 to 6. It will probably change again anyway. As for the burping, maybe try burping her more often, like after she eats and ounce or two or try some gas drops for a little while

danak4 · February 2013

Also try to remember that babies are going through so much physical and developmental growth right now. Sometimes they just get fussy, change eating or sleeping patrons for no reason. Try not to worry about being a bad mom and follow your gut, you'll know if something is really wrong.

angielayne926 · February 2013

danak4:
Also try to remember that babies are going through so much physical and developmental growth right now. Sometimes they just get fussy, change eating or sleeping patrons for no reason. Try not to worry about being a bad mom and follow your gut, you'll know if something is really wrong.nbsp;nbsp;

This!

doggiemom4 · February 2013

danak4:
Also try to remember that babies are going through so much physical and developmental growth right now. Sometimes they just get fussy, change eating or sleeping patrons for no reason. Try not to worry about being a bad mom and follow your gut, you'll know if something is really wrong.

Agreed.

I thought the same thing too about being a bad mom. I took it really hard when LO had to spend 10 days in the NICU. I thought it was my fault. I thought the worst was going to happen. I still feel that way a little bit but LO is happy and healthy and the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Also, like PP stated burp after 1-2oz. I do that with my LO. He does get quite mad when I take the bottle from him but if I don't do that. He ends up projectiling across the room all because I did not burp him enough. Believe it or not, he was doing that w/ my DH, so I paid close attention to what he was doing and DH was burping him enough or right.

vborja25 · February 2013

Well, it looks like everything went back to normal. Will talk to my pedi about reflux! Thank you all for your replies!

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