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April 2014 Moms
ambarnett1
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The Big Reflux Thread
ambarnett1
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Just like the breastfeeders and pumpers, reflux mom's and babies often face many day to day challenges. So, might as well make one big thread to ask our questions and talk about our daily struggles. Let's start!
How old is your LO?
How long have you known about the reflux?
Bottle fed or breastfed?
What do you do to manage the reflux? Meds? Thickening?
Your daily struggle?
Any questions?
How old is your LO?
How long have you known about the reflux?
Bottle fed or breastfed?
What do you do to manage the reflux? Meds? Thickening?
Your daily struggle?
Any questions?
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Re: The Big Reflux Thread
What kind of rice cereal do you use?
How long have you known about the reflux? Around 6 weeks
Bottle fed or breastfed? breast, getting bottles of bm while I'm working
What do you do to manage the reflux? Meds? Thickening? LO is on Zantac
Your daily struggle? I'm constantly questioning if he still needs them but I'm terrified of taking him off b/c he's headed to daycare in a few weeks.
She seems to be more comfortable on the Zantac and is less fussy but still chokes during the night when lying on her back. I have her on an incline but it doesn't seem to stop the stuff coming up. She also has raspy breathing sometimes and sounds congested, often during the night from the inflammation from the reflux.
How old is your LO? 8 wks
How long have you known about the reflux? Diagnosed at 3 weeks
Bottle fed or breastfed? BM via bottle now & nurse in night a few times a week. Occasionally supplement with enfamil newborn rtf
What do you do to manage the reflux? Zantac; tried prevacid and it was making it worse; oatmeal in bottles; nurse reclined all way back
Your daily struggle? Choking/stopping breathing & lips turn blue. Pedi sent apnea monitor home and it was a nightmare! Way too many false alarms
We have a barium swallow scheduled in 2 weeks. Anyone else?
How old is your LO? 3months on Monday
How long have you known about the reflux? For about a month
Bottle fed or breastfed? Ebf
What do you do to manage the reflux? Meds? Zantac Thickening? Not yet
Your daily struggle? Vins weight gain
Any questions? Anyone else dealing with slow weight gain?
Eta: ok I think ive fixed it!
Vin in below the 3rd percentile. They aren't worried about the percentile so much as the fact he isn't gaining an oz a day. I have another weigh in tomorrow ugh. He's been on Zantac for a little over a week I am hoping it helped- I have a baby scale at home but I have tried not to stress myself out using it all the time. So far it looks like he is on track to be gaining ALMOST an oz a day for this week, I am hoping the "official" weigh in will reflect that.
Bottlefed.
He has ridiculous amount of spit up after each feeding. Sitting up afterwards and feeding on incline don't help. Cries more at night right before bed.
I'm wondering if he has a milk sensitivity. He is 45% for wt ....was 11lb 5oz on Wednesday.
Doctor told me he most likely had GERD. It wasn't until his 2 month appointment that he was diagnosed with reflux and given Zantac. He is EBF. My doctor told me if that it didn't seem to be working to take my DS off the medication. The other day at 11 weeks he was still being fussy and uncomfortable so i decided to take him off the medication. HORRIBLE idea! My poor DS had a major chocking incident last night before bed. Right away i put him back on Zantac. I feel so bad! With reflux he goes from smiling to screaming in 0 to 60. This has happened a lot in stores. It is also hard because he is mostly upset during the day.
@smashton14th I HATE the choking incidents. My pedi suggested taking him off zantac a while ago and I refused. I know when I'm a few hours late giving him his meds that he will be in so much pain, let alone a whole day.
On the plus side, we started DS on prevacid yesterday and have not had any spit up incidents!
@embear22 thrush sucks and so does mastitis!
In the last week he has stretched his feeding from 3-4 oz every 2-3 hours to 5-6 oz every 3-4 hours. He has also begun sleeping through the night. Awesome, right?! Well, the past three days or so any time we try to feed he freaks out and cries intermittently. We stop and burp, we rock, I warm the bottle, we do everything and nothing helps. He will cry then suck. Cry then suck. Then after 15-20 minutes of this he will be fine and drain the bottle.
Anyone have any experience or advice?! He's totally fine and happy leading up to it and after- but during he is pissed. I don't wanna spend $$ on new bottles or formula if it's just a phase. I'm not being paid right now and budget is tight.
How old is your LO? 12w tmrw.
How long have you known about the reflux? A while but diagnosed at 2mo appt
Bottle fed or breastfed? Mostly breast but gets bm bottles while I'm at work, sometimes spit up similac formula.
What do you do to manage the reflux? Meds? Thickening? Zantac twice a day even tho he hates the taste of it & I have the hardest time getting him to take it so I have to do a teeny tiny bit at a time.
Your daily struggle? Giving him the meds but it's so worth it.
Any questions? Anyone have tricks to get the meds down better? It's grape flavored, I've tried one of those pacifiers you can add meds to, adding it to a bit of breastmilk in a bottle, giving him a little at a time while bf'ing, just straight from the syringe... I've ran out if ideas.
Diagnosed 6 weeks
Put on Zantac last week
EBF
This with the clear spit up. Freaks me out. She does it so much she soaks her onesie.
@Mrs.Kohalic17 for DS we just use the syringe and squirt it in real fast then pop a bottle in. Maybe you can do that and pop him right on the poop
Eta- spelling
DS is 13.6 lbs & gets 1ml twice day, with option of third dose as needed (have not needed a third dose yet).
Also if anyone suspects a milk allergy, you can ask for their stool to be tested for blood. A GI specialist told me almost all allergies will show a positive for blood in stool, even if you cannot see it.