Please READ guys.. im so lost…. need help

If the vomitting didn’t seem to be bothering him, I wouldn’t worry about it. Easy to say, hard to do, I know. Kaelyn was a horrible spitter, and had trouble gaining weight because of it, but once her reflux was under control, the spitting no longer bothered her. It just became a laundry issue. It was annoying to constantly be doing laundry for her, but I was so happy that she wasn’t in pain that it was fine with me.

Im sorry to hear things are so rough, and I know exectly how you feel. When my son was only a week old we were drove to the hospital in an ambulance because he stopped breathing and were there for 8 days. Turned out he coked on his spit up and some got into his lungs. They found out after tons of tests that he had severe acid reflux. He was put on Bethanochl and zantac, had to be upright at ALL times, and we had to thicken his food. He was put on an oximeter, an apnea moniter, and oxygen. Also they added caleries to his formula to help him gain weight. We elevated his bed, kept him strait up when feeding him, and 30 minutes after. We thickened his food with Simply Thick, Necter consistency. All of this helped so much. It was a lot to do but he is now almost 8 months old and doing well. He still has acid reflux but we are able to slack a little on the things that we do. Also if you dont agree with your doctor you should find a new one that will listen and work with you. I hope this helps a little and feel free to ask anymore questions.

I tried thickening his bottles with cereal after trying enfamil a.r. and it worked well for a month, but once I started the prevacid at 30mg/day he seemed to cry with the cereal, so now he is on similac alimentum rtf with no cereal and prevacid 30mg/day and doing good. He stills has his occasional bad days and still spits up a lot, but the crying is so much better. I would suggest trying the prevacid again, especially since you were able to get the correct dose with no problem, I had to go to 3 different docs before I managed to get that dose.

Im just telling you what my doctor told me. He said do 2 teaspoons for every two ounces. But like I said before this didnt work for my son and we had to use simply thick. He still spits up but WAY less than before. So if it still doesnt work ask your doctor what he thinks about trying simply thick.

I would personally try a PPI again. If not prevacid, then maybe zegerid. We did oatmeal to thicken b/c she couldn’t tolerate rice, but we did it b/c she was choking on feeds. I would really try a PPI again. Good luck. Sorry you’re having such a hard time.

I am sorry it has been so difficult for you. I would try the cereal. Just about 2 teaspoons in the bottle. I figure it can’t have any side effect worse then the meds. I have a 7 month old that is still suffering from reflux and misc. other things she’s had 5 ear infections and now has bronchitis for 2 weeks. Her reflux is only bad at night, which doesn’t work out too good cause I have 3 yr old twins too. For the first 4-5 months, she just screamed all day and night, so I know you are about to loose it. Just hang in there and keep researching, there has to be an answer somewhere. FYI My baby is on Alimentum stopped the massive crying days greatly, and prevacid that worked for a while, but not as much now. I heard the other day that a good start formula worked for a colic baby. I bought some but haven’t tried it yet. I’ll let you know if I get brave enough. I tried soy mixed in her spoon fed cereal and she threw up for a day and a half.