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[hellbennt]

favorite carrier?

well I love:

a pouch for a quick trip

a ring sling is good for a quick trip and also for breastfeeding while out & about- I have casual & fancy & even w/ spf protection…

a mei tai will get more use soon- great for longer carries and vertical nursing while out & about

stretchy wrap is snuggly right now at home for baby who wants to sleep and mama wants to hop on the computer

for nursing, maybe a ring sling but they have a learning curve- maybe there’s a local group where another mama can show you how to use one…unless you’re good at following directions from online (there are even videos online)- me, I need someone showing me in real life…anyway, the tail of a ring sling can be used to cover/shade baby so that s/he can’t look around…

[Anonymous]

I’d be pretty ticked off, too. She didn’t even bother to ask if you knew about or were trying the elimination diet? And since when is soy formula the solution to reflux?

Did you tell her that you plan to continue breast feeding despite her advice? If so, how did she respond? If you didn’t tell her, I’d call her, or talk to her about it at Lucy’s next visit, tell her you wish to or are continuing to breast feed and ask for her advice or suggestions. This is a way to feel her out and see if she’s really that lousy of a doctor or was she having an off day. I love my children’s doctor but if she had been the way she was at Myles’ last check-up from the beginning, I would have found someone else. I’ve known her for years now, so I think it was just a bad day for her, so I can let it go and still trust her.

If you don’t think you’ll be able to trust or respect her, I’d definitely think about looking for another doctor. I need to have someone I can talk to and someone who listens and considers my mother’s intuition and views. I’ve changed doctors more than once for my children because like Heather said you’re going to have to deal with this person for a long time….

[Anonymous]

AMY-

I’m furious for you!!!

I failed miserably trying to bf my ds… to the point that I didn’t even bother trying with Anika – – talk about guilt trip but at the same time, I know it was the right choice for our family as a whole so I try not to dwell. I say any Mother that can sucessfully bf already needs to be put on a pedastal… and any Mother who can sucessfuly bf a reflux baby is a saint! And you are a saint for continuing it with the elimination diet and all!

I could see how bottle feeding could possibly be easier because of the ability to thicken it with cereal or to put a probiotic in it but I don’t think that anyone could argue that the breastmilk isn’t best.

How much did Lucy weigh at her 2 month visit? My Anika is about a month older and she was 10 lbs 4 oz a week ago. We were able to get 7.5 mg of Prevacid 3 times a day out of our doctor but I’m just now (today) learing about using the Pepcid. How are you getting it in liquid? Also, what is periactin? Sounds like you could use a higher dose of Prevacid.

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry – I know how frustrating that is. I think it really just depends on the doctor. Some encourage breastfeeding, others encourage formula, and there are still others who just support whatever the parent decides is best for them. I think you just need to take what anyone says – doctors included – with a grain of salt. Also, you might want to consider finding another doctor – one who has similar opinions as you. I mean this is someone you’re going to have to deal with for the rest of your kids childhood. You know? You know what’s best for Lucy. The doc sees her for 15 minutes here and there. You’re with her every day.

[Anonymous]

We took Lucy for her 2mth visit to her ped doc. The ped doc we loved just retired and this is who took over. So far, haven’t been impressed, but I’m fair. I’ll give this a chance.

So today, I’m saying how Lucy’s reflux is horrible. I really didn’t expect her to help since it’s not her area of expertise. We have an appt with the gi specialist Nov 30. So, I’m answering her questions and tell her that Lucy’s starting to choke sometimes on the silent reflux. I’ve been through this before so it’s not alarming to me. I didn’t make a big deal out of anything with the reflux.

She procedes to advise me that if I put her on Isomil formula that this would be better. I had told her I was exclusively nursing a few minutes before that and thought maybe she forgot. So I said, “Oh, she’s breast fed” The doc suggested anyway to formula feed to help control the reflux. And said that avoiding dairy in the formulas was the way to go.

This was where I did the double take!!! Did she even ask me if I’m eliminating dairy??? No, just right into suggesting to stop bfing and formula feed.

Did I miss the release of information that formula is better for reflux? Is there anything better than breastmilk? Then why am I putting myself through all this???

It’s been difficult to stay on the elimination diet and I haven’t been that good at it this last couple weeks. -Here goes my self inflicted guilt trip… I just have to be more adamant at the diet.

This post is turning into a vent because I’m sooo furious. Sorry for that, but it’s hard to stay calm when the docs are supposed to help.

Henry’s first doc talked me into formula feeding and that was the worst thing for Henry. It may work for other kids, but not in his case. Lucy’s reflux is soooo much better than Henry’s. So I know the bfing is working for her. I just don’t want anymore docs trying to talk me out of nursing.

Will all the docs try to do this?

[Anonymous]

Hi Leanne,
Yes, I think the worst part for me is always when the anesthesiologist comes and takes my baby away. I’ve never had to do the gas mask though.

So did your niece have to have a feeding tube when she was a baby? Or was she able to eat normally? I think most cleft lip/palate babies can learn to eat normally using special bottles, but Bryce had other issues, so he never did. Just curious.

I’ve only given Bryce the Probiotics twice now. Once I mixed the powder in a little water and gave it to him with a syringe (through his feeding tube) and the second time I mixed it into his breastmilk. I’ve heard you can’t let it get too warm (like in a very warm bottle), so I just made his milk about room temperature.

[Anonymous]

Grant’s reflux has been so severe that I have been swimming with my neck just above the water for about 6 mos now…BUT the prevacid 30 mg and pepcid will soon begin to work and I was wondering what some of you have done for breastfeeding/napping, food and medicine schedules at or around 7 mos.

With pain in the way, hunger and sleep cries/cues seem to be lost in the mix and with a curious 2 year old around to boot! Any schedule would be greatly appreciated-we can’t seem to get off this 3 hour thing and with nursing I don’t know if I should just stay this way until we transition to soy milk around a year old…though I think I may die to wait that long!

Current meds are: (prevacid 30 mg-split in 2 doses am and supper and pepcid 10mg night time per Dr. Phillips Marci kids)

Thank you!!!!!!!

[hellbennt]

rice might add insult to injury?

it might be too much to add something new to her poor little sensitive system?

if you do add rice, make sure it’s a brand of cereal that does not contain any added milk or soy…

how old is your lo? (if you go to the upper right hand corner of the screen & click ‘settings’ and then click ‘profile’ you can put information in your ‘signature’ so that we can keep track of these things & not keep asking you the same questions, like what age, meds/doses/forms, formula/breastfeeding, etc)

and, if it’s a milk allergy or intolerance, chances are that soy will affect her as well- so is she on an elemental formula?

[hellbennt]

I’m pretty sure that what you eats gets to them via your breastmilk about 3-5hrs after you’ve eaten it…as for how long it stays in your milk, I’d say that if you’ve been avoiding soy then this ‘oops’ shouldn’t last more than maybe a few days, at the maxiumum and, more realistically, it probably shouldn’t really have an effect even much past one or two feedings after having eaten the soy- please let us know what you find

ETA: water will help hydrate you…

hellbennt2006-10-26 12:24:33

[hellbennt]

you mean the elimination diet?

if you find out that there are eos cells then oftentimes it’s milk and soy proteins…but you’re right that it might be more…

from my ‘groupie intro’ that’s stickied in the introduce yourself forum thre’s links to a bunch of Elimination diet info & there’re also links from the ‘main’ mspi thread I made- I think that’s stickied in the mspi forum, that’s now in the feeding forum- if you can’t find it there, it’s linked to from my groupie intro.

also, from the mspi thread look for the ‘misconceptions about elemental formula’ link- this will explain why sometimes it is necesssary to stop breastfeeding, as a last resort, for some…

[hellbennt]

I haven’t looked at the video, but can you swaddle him?

as for breastfeeding him all night; you gotta do what you gotta do

[Anonymous]

I would definitely look for another doctor. 15mg is a very low dose. Myles was miserable, fighting every feeding, impossible to burp, never at more than 2 ounces at a time and like you described, screamed incessantly with every feeding; solids or breast milk. As soon as he was on 30 mgs, things turned around and he’s been fine since.

Some moms here have had success by calling Dr. Phillips himself (at http://www.marci-kids.com and asking him to call their doctors about Prevacid or Zegerid dosing. I’d try that and if that failed I’d find another doctor even if it meant traveling out of state. I came close to doing that for Myles since the only Ped GI. in our state has a lousy reputation. I got lucky though, and was finally able to convince my family doctor to prescribe 30 mg by faxing her the marci-kids info.

That’s another idea, some moms here have had better luck with family doctors…they seem to know more about reflux and reflux meds. Do you have a family doctor you know and can take him to?

I was a pumping mom since my refluxers would not nurse. I had to pump at least ten times per day to keep my supply up. Pumping in the wee hrs of the morning helps a lot because that’s when supply tends to be the highest. Also, try to pump 2-5 minutes after the milk stops flowing…that tells the body to produce more.

Good luck. I hope you find some relief for son soon.

[Anonymous]

I apologize for the length…

Grant is nearly 7 months old and we are having very serious problems with his reflux. We are about to have his 15 mg prevacid script refilled but were hoping for a higher dose before we do. Here are his symptoms:

q Grant is nursing every 2-3 hours daytime and every 3-4 night hours.

q He rarely takes more than 2 ounces even if we spend an hour trying to burp him.

q He shows an incredible resistance to burping.

q When he is burped, it comes up sounding harsh and forced like an adult intentional burp.

q He screams through all solids even if they are foods we can tell he likes (sucks them off the spoon).

q He arches his back and crawls off of breast at every feeding except those at night so he must be wrestled through each daytime feed.

q His incessant crying is limited to contact with food as when he plays he is quite happy.

q Mylanta doesn’t seem to help him at all even when we have given it before each feed which is not easy as he screams while we hold him down to give it to him.

q 15 mg prevacid doesn’t seem to help at all even when we have tried splitting the dose am and pm for better coverage. In addition, it must be given on an empty stomach and he eats so often this is hard to time.

q He cannot ride in a car seat unless he is given 5 ml of Mylanta before the ride and again before he gets into the car to go home.

q His weight is still good because he is nursed an hour and 30 mins every feeding every three hours and through the night as well. He gets enough to wet his diapers but pecks at the breast all day because he is clearly still hungry.

q The breast milk supply has dwindled with this type of behavior and is now around 2 oz per feeding with 6-8 feeds a day. It is difficult to give him prevacid when his stomach is empty since the feeding schedule is so frequent.

q Mother is on reglan (a re-lactation drug) to help keep supply up, drinks fluids constantly and had tried pumping to stimulate supply as well.

q We have also tried health store remedies such as aloe vera in his foods or before nursings and it does not work as he still holds down his burps and glugs down air, stopping feeds.

q He cannot handle a bottle as the liquid comes out too fast even from a newborn nipple and gags him. Everyone in our family has tried it.

The other child here is barely getting any care at all for how this younger child is taking over…needless to say and I know I’m preaching to the choir but no one is sleeping either… plus we’re 1 week post double inguinial (groin) hernias which seems to have helped but not anywhere near as much as we were hoping!

Doc won’t go up to 30 mg prevacid (weighs 17 lbs at nearly 7 mos old) so we’re stuck with 15 mg. If I supplement with mylanta and zantac (against doc’s orders but I still have the script to go and refill) how much/how often can I give on top of splitting prevacid am and pm? Do you guys think that it’s going to help? Should I go out of state for help? anyone know of Dr. James Webb in Texas??? Our local GI doc is X ray happy and doesn’t approve of mylanta… Have mercy I am about to lose my mind…

[Anonymous]

You should be able to find a pharmacy that will make the meds the way you want them since you’re paying so much for them. I know what you mean about the docs getting mad that you know more than they do. I had the same problem, and still do have that problem.

For us, losec never worked nearly as well as the prevacid did. Losec never helped her. The same dose of prevacid started to control the pain, and upping the dose of prevacid got the pain under control for the most part with breakthrough especially at night. But it was much better, though still not near where I would hope to be, but better since she wasn’t hurting.

My advice is to try a different med- give the prevacid a try. Like Laura said, prevacid in CaraCream tastes a MILLION times better than losec in CaraCream. You still have the thickness and the same texture, and unfortunately the saltiness is still there (which unfortunately, I think goes hand in hand with properly compounded PPIs), BUT (and it’s a big BUT) that NASTY bitter flavour, which is the losec, is not there. Prevacid is not bitter so it tastes better. (I know it’s wierd, but I’ve tasted all of Hailey’s meds, formulas, and foods to find out why she refuses certain ones).

When I first stopped nursing, I had to because Hailey stopped feeding. So I pumped and gave it to her in a bottle. I first tried giving her the hypoallergenic formulas. I would mix the tiniest drop into the breast milk, and because they tasted so foul compared to my milk, she would never accept it. We kept trying, but she just get refusing, and because her feeding aversion was so bad, we had to give in and give her the breastmilk because she wouldn’t eat. She knew how to take a bottle though, but she wouldn’t accept any formula for a long time. I think that the switch from breastfeeding or breastmilk to hypo formulas is harder than the switch from regular formula to hypo formula. For us, the feeding aversion really complicated things, but we seem to be a severe case on all fronts. I always wish that I had known about the elimination diet and had given that a try, though if I remember, you had tried that already.

Good luck. I feel really bad for you guys, and hope that you can find something that works.

[hellbennt]

lori (s&H) reports that prevacid tastes better with the caracream- any chance of switching? that might solve the issue?

also: I’m sorry– I can’t remember if you’re on a special diet or if you’ve tried to figure out your diet

that is if you want to continue breastfeeding, otherwise nevermind…

again I forget have you posted over on the yahoobreastfeeding reflux board for diet support- thery’re really great about that over there…

~laura