Am I wrong to ask for medication?

How severe does my daughter’s infant reflux have to be for me to be justified in requesting that her doctor prescribe her something? Her doctor diagnosed her with reflux after her (premature) birth, but has said that most babies have reflux and that this is a normal phase she will outgrow.

I do not agree, nor do I think they’d consider it normal if they refluxed everything they drank through their mouth and nose. In addition to her reflux, she wheezes and has difficulty breathing particularly when lying flat, and will not tolerate this position for sleep, or even brief changes.

If she lies flat during a diaper change she will reflux her last feeding and cannot sleep now without being elevated in her car seat, bouncer, or stroller. If we place her on her flat on her back she’ll startle herself awake, pull her legs up to her chest, and scream in pain. Her symptoms seem worse at night, and to complicate matters she now wants to feed every half hour to sooth herself, which is a catch twenty two for us because it only ends up hurting her more in the long run.

Her doctors are not concerned because she isn’t losing weight, but what they fail to understand is that she only started gaining weight after I changed her formula to a thicker variety with added rice starch for babies with reflux. Given all that, am I wrong to advocate for her to be prescribed something?