I've had a good cry but now need help!!
I'm new to this website but really need some advice!
My LO is 12 wks and has had problems feeding from birth. I couldnt breast feed so shes been bottle fed since she was 1 wk old and I've used cow and gate. To cut a long story short (I hope) my lo screams with pain during half her feeds a day. SHe's often sick, spits up, arches her back with pain, refuses to feed, has inconsistent dirty nappies but is gaining weight. I've taken her to docs while back who diagnosed her with reflux and so we've been giving her infant gaviscon. However, it doesnt seem to be working anymore. So we tried gripe water which is ok at times, infacol that made her projectile vomit all her feed and calpol as she seems in so much pain!!
HV made us an appointment at hospital and she's now been prescribed stronger reflux med and anti sickness medicine. Anyway had another horrendus day today. the reflux med takes a week to arrive and I tried the antisickness stuff and shes been sick all day!
The reason I'm messaging is because I dont even know if she has reflux or if shes allergic or something!
Has anyone had anything similar with there lo? Please help!! (
My LO is 12 wks and has had problems feeding from birth. I couldnt breast feed so shes been bottle fed since she was 1 wk old and I've used cow and gate. To cut a long story short (I hope) my lo screams with pain during half her feeds a day. SHe's often sick, spits up, arches her back with pain, refuses to feed, has inconsistent dirty nappies but is gaining weight. I've taken her to docs while back who diagnosed her with reflux and so we've been giving her infant gaviscon. However, it doesnt seem to be working anymore. So we tried gripe water which is ok at times, infacol that made her projectile vomit all her feed and calpol as she seems in so much pain!!
HV made us an appointment at hospital and she's now been prescribed stronger reflux med and anti sickness medicine. Anyway had another horrendus day today. the reflux med takes a week to arrive and I tried the antisickness stuff and shes been sick all day!
The reason I'm messaging is because I dont even know if she has reflux or if shes allergic or something!
Has anyone had anything similar with there lo? Please help!! (
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sorry to hear ur having so much trouble. i hope things get better for u both xxxxx
Persevere with the meds though, they might take a while to kick in and pester your GP for a referral to the hospital paed or to a dietician.
xx
I have twin boys. I bf for 8 weeks but struggled to keep up after their 6 week growth spurt so we slowly switched to formula. They were awful. They were never sick but eventually refused to drink anything. I saw a paed at 17 weeks, after spending days in tears and dreading feeding them, who diagnosed a milk allergy and put them on treated milk (not Soya as she suggested they also might have problems with this, which we later found they did) called Neocate - cue different babies! It took a little while for them to trust the bottle again, and at 11 months they still dont drink anywhere near the recommended amount, but by the time we had sorted things they had begun to loose weight, although this didnt happen for ages, their weight gain just slowed to nothing then went backwards.
I urge you to pester and pester. It was only when I said they referred me or I was taking both boys to A&E after drinking no more than 4oz in a day for a couple of days they agreed to anything...and my paed was shocked id lasted so long!!
Gemma, Ryan and Alfie 11 months