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My baby is 14 weeks old and loves to be carried around. It is the only way to make the screaming stop. Before he was born I purchased a Kangaroo fleece pouch as a carrier. He loved this for the first month, but then it made his reflux worse because his little legs were squooshed up. Then about a month ago, I switched to the baby bjorn since his legs can dangle down. Only problem is, he doesn’t like the bjorn nearly as much. . .not as comfy cozy even though it doesn’t aggrevate his reflux.
Anyone have a sling/carrier that your baby likes and doesn’t squoosh up the legs?
Ruby
Henry, 3 ½ months, reflux and milk protein allergy
Breastfeeding on dairy-free diet
3ml of 2mg/ml liquid Prilosec 2x a day
Topic: Vomiting 3 month old
My breastfed 3 & 1/2 month old has been randomly vomiting up
feedings since he was a couple of weeks old. Lately it’s been either
throwing up straight after or in the middle of a feed.. or he’ll throw
up a whole hour after a feed. Sometimes he’ll go a couple of days
without throwing up.. sometimes he’ll throw up 2-3 times in a day. It
seems to be a combination of an overactive let down on my part
(although this has settled down a bit and is not too bad), an easy gag
reflex on his part and maybe a bit of reflux. I’m so confused because
all these different websites have so many different scenarios and
possibilities as to what it could actually be. He was born a healthy 9
pounds and is now 15 pounds.. so there’s definitely no problem with
his weight. He does not seem upset or in pain when he throws up.
I’ve tried everything – burping every 3-5 minutes, having him more
upright when feeding, leaving him a little upright after feeding and
from the beginning he’s only fed off one breast at a time. He’s now
teething so he’s constantly got his fingers in his mouth.. and
because of his seemingly easy gag reflex this makes him throw up.
He also will randomly be kind of fussy at the breast – pulling away
and crying, and kicking his legs – but still going back for the nipple.
Any ideas, or help would be greatly appreciated.. Of course, my
pediatrician has told me that he’ll ‘grow out of it’.. but when?
Topic: toddler reflux episode–help
Lucas has been having a great week. Sleeping better, etc. etc. (I’ve removed wheat and it seems to have helped.) Last night he must have wakened 25 times. He just could not get comfortable and could only sleep arched over my body or with my arm underneath his back. Lots of burping, etc. Didn’t seem to be actively teething, which is weird. Anyway, today he woke with hiccups and continued to seem like he was having a hard time. He coughed a few times looking like he was refluxing something up and looked like he might gag, but he didn’t. Then I was feeding him breakfast in the high chair and he did the same thing, coughing like it’s reflux, then gagging and suddenly he’s bringing up his entire breakfast. None of it was digested, not even partially. He had been eating for at least 30 minutes if not more, he’s a very slow eater. after doing this, I cleaned him up and five minutes later he was eating again–acting fine. 2.5 hours later he did the same thing, only it was after a nap and mostly breastmilk came up, but then a bite of egg and sausage from 2.5 hours earlier came up, completely undigested. EAch time these coughing/gagging episodes happened, he cried hard afterwards, as if it was painful.
Do any of you have problems where your toddler is refluxing during or after a meal and bringing up a lot of food? An adult friend of mine with pretty severe reflux said this is par for the course for her, and often happens in the middle of a meal. Only she feels something is lodged and then has to excuse herself and goes to throw up in private. Is this what toddler reflux and children’s reflux becomes? This is really the first time that there’s been this kind of hting with a lot of food coming up that’s undigested. He doesn’t seem to have the flu and acted as if he felt well other times of the day today. I don’t have any experience with kids iwth the flu either, so I don’t really know what their vomit looks like, but I am guessing it looks digested, like when I have the flu. I just know he had all the signs of lots of reflux going on last night and today too. I’m guessing that logically the hiatal hernia might make it so that some food stays in the top part of his stomach, where there might not be a lot of digestion going on, but don’t really know. 2.5 hours seems a long time for something to come up looking EXACTLY like it did before going down.
any thoughts?