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Spit up baby

emilyerdhemilyerdh member
in June 2015 Moms
I've only lurked on this board. So this is my first post, and I'm sorry if this isn't the right place for it..

Anyways, I'll try to make this as short as I can. My son is 9 weeks old and has been spitting up (not just a little bit, a lot) after every single feeding since he was born. When we were in the hospital, they told us it was just because he was trying to get the excess mucus out of his system. I breastfed for this first month, then switched to formula. We tried similac advance and similac sensitive. Then the pedi told us to try similac soy. None of those helped at all, so then she told us to try enfamil AR with added rice starch. That hasn't helped either. We had also had given him zantac and nexium.  At his 2 month checkup, we told the pedi nothing had changed and he had recently started projectile vomiting. So we did an ultrasound to check for pyloric stenosis. Everything looked normal, thank God. She also told us to add rice cereal to the formula. That has cut down on the projectile vomiting, but that's about it. He has gained four pounds since birth, so that doesn't seem to be an issue. I just wish there is something we could do to help him keep it down until he hopefully outgrows this. We keep him propped up all the time, and we also tried gripe water. Just wondering if anyone has had a similar situation. 

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  • ChardeeMacDennisChardeeMacDennis member
    Sounds like a happy spitter.

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  • lwhrmommalwhrmomma member
    I don't have any advice, as my LO doesn't spit up much, but my cousin's son was a projectile spitter when he was a baby.  He had a lot of difficulty with breast milk, and solid foods until he was about 18 months, at which point he just outgrew it.  Have you tried seeing a different doctor to see if they have any other ideas?  Good luck!


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  • aliciaspinnetaliciaspinnet member
    I think I have a happy spitter too. He doesn't seem to be in any distress and he's gaining weight like mad so I haven't done anything about it other than get faster with the burp cloths. I was worried at first (I kept feeling his stomach to see if I could feel the "olive" you get with pyloric stenosis, but then I talked to my mum who's a midwife and a mum of 5 and she reassured me.
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  • hudson202hudson202 member
    I had a major spitter-upper, and determined it was due to dairy in my diet. I cut It out, and the spitting went way down. It sounds like you've already tried formulas that cut out dairy, but maybe it's some other intolerance? Sorry I'm not more help. I hope you can find a solve quickly.
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  • emcnmla2015emcnmla2015 member
    I also have what I guess is a happy spitter. He throws up after almost every feed and only rarely shows discomfort. I eliminated dairy which seemed to help some but he still has days and weeks that are just really bad. He's a big boy, gaining weight like a champ, so the doc is not concerned. I think I could take the gold medal in spit catching at this point. It's distressing and frustrating, I know. I feel for you :(
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  • HoosOnFirstHoosOnFirst member
    Me too, but I heard it peaks at 4 weeks - hopeful we all are out of the woods soon!
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  • mishmardhionomishmardhiono member
    We are experiment the same things but it's just come on at 11 weeks old. The doctors had told us to add gelatin to her feeds which didn't help, then add gelatin & give her motillium which helped us but I took her off motillium. We saw a naturopath on Tuesday and they have given us a natural colic mix (she doesn't have colic and isn't whingy) and that has resolved it.
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  • HayesRN13HayesRN13 member
    As long and your LO is thriving, hang there they will grow out of it. My peds says (and it makes sense) that switching so many formulas so often causes this.. "So you have parents that babies spit up and Gi symptoms get worse simply because they start trying all different kinds of formula and their system never has a chance to settle...when really there wasn't an issue in the first place". I really really recommend not switching so much. Soy is not the best choice for babies, nor is lactose free.. And most of the babies on it don't need to be, it's just the one they settled on
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