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[Anonymous]

ally ‘s mom: does your child have saniford’s? i found info on this website then researched it today and THAT IS IT!!!! i am so relieved and concerned, and not sure where to turn.

[hellbennt]

hi & welcome!

what colors are her stools? normal mustardy seedy breastfed baby stools? or are they green? frothy like shaving cream? stringy (mucousy)?

anyway, please take/find the time to read my welcome/intro- there’s a whole section on breastfeeding your little GERDling:

it should address many of your questions & concerns!

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=853&am p;am p;am p;am p;PN=1&TPN=1

glad you found us!

everyone is amazingly wonderful!

~laura

[Anonymous]

That sounds like she is in pain, that’s not proactive. It sounds like the Zantac isn’t doing it for her–you might want to try out a PPI like Prevacid, Prilosec, or Zegerid.

[Anonymous]

i’m wondering how much my one month old issue with my three month old is related to acid reflux: she’s been coming on and off the breast during the day, and now also the bottle. the difference, with me, it hurts. i can’t keep doing this. she just upped her dosage of zantac cause she is now 11 pounds, but she’s still having symptoms…i’m wondering if she somehow learned this head turning, pushing off the nipple behavior when she was in pain, and now does it proactively??? her whole body goes stiff, her face gets red and she twists her head so she’s off, then goes right back on and repeats. any thoughts?? help!!!!!!!!!!!

[hellbennt]

on the yahoobreastfeedingreflux board they post all the time that their babies have troubles w/are sensitive to salactites and amines– I looked up pears and they’re low in salactites, but prunes are high, hmmm….and pears with the skins are higher….

http://www.zipworld.com.au/%7Eataraxy/Salic_03.txt

[Anonymous]

Lavina – sounds like reflux and aggrivation to me too . .. poor thing just

sounds uncomfortable. Its interesting that you noted that you haven’t

been doing the MSPI thing as well as you used to and the behavior at

night sounds OH SO familiar to me. I breastfed for 14 mo’s and honestly

there was a time that I just felt like a walking pacifier .. .the night wakings

were full of non-stop comfort nursing. Like you I was a little back and

forth on the MSPI thing but it turned out it was the thing that was causing

so much night wakings for us. Once I got serious about contolling her

diet and mine the comfort nursing and the night wakings went down

drastically. I should add that I also had her prevacid upped to the highest

dose and she still needed that high dose even after I got the MSPI thing

under control. You could be looking at a need for a med increase and

possibly a need to control dietary things too.

I really wish the doctors put more stress on listening to our babies rather

than training our babies.. . .I always felt like I was “training” a monster by

“giving” in and getting up hour after hour with her and worse yet feeding

her every time. I was concerned but I didn’t know what to do because I

didn’t think what I was doing was the “right” thing. Sounds like

your doing a great job and I really hope something improves soon – I

know how hard it is to pull allnighters with no end in site. Hang in there –

it gets better, do everything you can do to control diet and play with med

doses if need be and then follow Annes advice as well and think about

other possibilities like hernia if things don’t improve within three/four

weeks on a new regimine. That poor lo of yours sounds like she needs a

break and so do you.

Keep us updated

~Lizlovemysophia2006-2-10 19:5:49

[Anonymous]

OMG, how did you contain yourself when he said all those things? I cant believe he actually told the doc that it isnt the thrill of his life to play with Hailey and that your older one is more fun. I would have about died! I’d be giving my dh the Look of Death. Sometimes theres such a thing as “too much honesty”. No wonder the doc wants your hubby to come to the next appt. He probably thinks he’ll get more interesting info out of him.

I’ve had to actually tell my husband to “be quiet” during an appointment. He could go on forever talking about stuff that I do. He thinks its fun to embarrass me. He even thought it was cute to mention our sex life to the doc during a particular discussion about breast feeding. If he’s not cracking jokes, then he’s making me look like an irrational, over-protective mom at times. I’ve pretty much banned him from any and all appointments unless they are really important ones.

[Anonymous]

My 20 month old has a food aversion so has been on formula EXCLUSIVELY his whole life. He has 6 to 12 bottles a day thickened with Gaviscon.

I would prefer that he eat solid foods but he won’t so there’s not much I can do. I know that he’ll give up the bottle/formula when he’s ready and I’ve given up forcing the issue. If I try switching him to a cup he just stops feeding alltogether and gets dehydrated, so it’s bottle and formula till he’s confident to make the change.

Just so you know there are toddlers out there thriving on just formula or breastmilk!

Take care,

[Anonymous]

Oh Lori, that sounds terrible.

I can tell you, that I have done nothing different with Tyler than what I did with my daughter and my daughter loves food and well you know Tylers story. If anything we were more relaxed with Tyler and I breastfed for longer so if this feeding aversion thing is psychological then surely Tyler would have been less likely to have one. Im sure your feeding habits initally were the same for both of your children too so its crazy for them to suggest that somehow this is your fault.

It makes me so mad that these people think that because our babies put on weight that they must be ok. They have no idea of the hours we devote just to get them to drink a bottle and that if we didnt persist that they just wouldnt have survived this long. Its funny that when you look at Tyler he just is the picture of health, not skinny at all. People have no idea the problems he has had just by looking at him. I am fortunate to have found great doctors and specialists that have gotten us past the bottle aversion stage and at no point did anyone ever point the finger at me. I just hope that you are able to find someone to help too.

[Anonymous]

We had our long awaited feeding evaluation for Noah today. We met with an OT, SLP, Ped, psychiatrist and nutritionist. After taking Noah’s history once again, they started out with their assumption as to why Noah is aversive to eating. Every test he’s had done has come back normal, except for his swallow study. He showed a delayed swallow and pooling way in the back of his throat. They think this is his entire reason for not wanting the bottle. They feel that as an infant he may have been uncomfortable with thin liquids because he couldnt control the flow into his throat. He may have felt as though it was difficult to breath since the liquid would pool at the junction of his wind pipe and esophogus before he swallowed. Even though he doesnt aspirate, he still could have had difficulty coordinating the swallow-breath reflex. So this being their basis for his feeding issues, they began the evaluation by thickening the formula to a honey consistancy and then giving it to him in an open cup. They watched through a double mirror while I tried to feed him. He opened his mouth for it (he does this anyway) and swallowed what he got into his mouth. We did this out of a couple different cups. Then we moved on to bananas from a spoon. He did this pretty well since this is the only solid that he eats well. He ate about 1.5 oz. We then went back to the thickened liquid and he flat out refused it. He was arching his back and trying to get out of the chair. They were wondering if he was acting that way because he wanted out or because of reflux. It had been 4.5 hours since his morning bottle, and he still only took 2 oz total between the bananas and thickend formula. He had had enough at that point.

After he was done eating, they all got together to discuss and came up with recommendations for us. Here is what they said:

1. do not do any sleep feedings. All feeding are to be done awake.

2. He is not to use a bottle at all. All milk comes from a cup.

3. We are to thicken his formula to honey consistancy and then after a few weeks go to a nectar consistancy.

4. He is to have 3 meals a day and 2 snacks. Consisting of 2 – 4 oz of solids and 3 oz of formula per meal. He is to have a total of 16 to 18 oz of formula. (he currently is getting 24 oz of formula concentrated to 30cal per oz).

They said that a baby that is his age (almost 10 months) should be transitioning to a cup and eating more on a normal schedule. They want us to continue with our normal appt with out OT and come back to the clinic in 2 months.

I have a problem with this whole plan they have. First of all, I dont think he had a swallow/breath issue when he was an infant. He was evaluated by an OT when he was 3 and 6 weeks old when he was breast feeding. His only issue was he didnt have the muscle tone to stay latched on and he didnt have a strong suck. When he did suck, his pattern was fine and there was no choking. Secondly, this idea doesnt explain why he doesnt care for solids either. I dont know how they expect me to get him to drink thick formula out of a cup and actually get enough to maintain any weight. They want to drop him down to 16oz! Thats crazy! He is barely gaining weight right now and I force 24 oz in him a day. They think that he will make up for the loss of calories by eating more solids. YEAH RIGHT! I’m lucky to get 4 to 6 oz in him a day.

Their treatment plan doesnt address why he has no appetite. By taking away a bottle and giving him thick liquid in a cup isnt going to make him anymore hungry or interested. If anything, he will get really full, really fast cause this stuff is like drinking a milk shake. I just dont get it. I think I actually will have better luck sticking to a bottle and doing sleep feeds. Atleast I know he’ll get more calories in him that way.

What do you think? Am I being over critical or do you think they have some good ideas?

[Anonymous]

Have you considered that he might not tolerate things in his diet? My son is milk/soy protein intolerant. Any kind of allergy can cause the bowels to bleed and might make the baby suceptible to infection. I understand wondering “Why us?” It is overwhelming to deal with stomach issues, especially with lack of sleep. My son’s sleeping has vastly improved with a change in my diet (I’m breastfeeding) and limiting his diet.

[Anonymous]

Kelly

I don´t know anything about breastfeeding… but i can tell you that Matthew was never ever constipated on Neocate, which i think is amazing and when we started with veggies and fruits he became constipated…. we thought it was the cereal but took it away and he still was. I asked my ped and he said that pears and bananas can have that affect — that is what Matthew is eating, so only asked about those. He said that even though they have fiber, they will cause constipation for soem weeks… thanks to someone in this board, we have started using milk of magnesia… we put 2ml in matthew´s water in the morning and it has been amazing for the last 3 or 4 days… he goes and consistency is pasty vs hard from before.

[Anonymous]

Kelly – I breastfed my refluxer/MSPIer for 14 months and more often than not she had problems with constipation. Its awful but I can’t remember at what age I introed a sippy cup to my daughter . .. my memory is shot from a year of night waking – lol. Anyway, breastfed babies do great with the straw style sippies and even with regular straws – you could try a little prune juice mixed with water, like a 1 to 2 ratio. Buuut .. .its not really necessary if your already giving her foods like prunes and peaches which should regulate her. Is she constipated in the sense that its hard and she strains or in the sense that she isn’t going as often? It may be that its just slowing down in frequency and its an adjustment stage?

To answer your question – yes, milk that you digest can cause stomach upset of any kind in a bfed MSPI baby because you are passing the proteins on. But if there isn’t wakefullness, heightened irritability day or night, and or increased reflux symptoms I wouldn’t think its the cause

http://www.breastfeedingbasics.com/html/ask/milkcontent.shtm l

~Liz

[Anonymous]

p.s. I forgot to mention that we’ve never done CIO. I’m not saying this making any sort of judgement, I’m only saying this to let you know that you dont’ have to do CIO to see improvement in their waking patterns. For us it was getting things better under control with better meds, having some serious testing done to find out what exactly was going on, dealing successfully with MSPI, and TIME. As they get older and spend more time upright, it’s better for them– so sitting, crawling and definitely walking, should help your situation. For us, it was really the walking that helped. Lucas still wakes at nearly your ‘good’ night schedule, but it’s a huge improvement from his former nights. He always wakes more when teething or sick. It’s been a long road. I will take on anyone though, who would like to suggest that he does this out of habit. For some babies, maybe, for mine, definitely not. So I’m very sympathetic to the mothers who really feel their babies are in pain, but are getting pressure to do CIO, especially if you have found that it makes things worse, like you mentioned. Laura is right, there are several other things you can do. There is also Elizabeth Pantley’s “The No Cry Sleep Solution” which is very insightful. Another mom on here, Tiffany (Ally’s mom, I think is her screenname) has a lot of good advice on sleeping as well. She’s also had a hard time with sleep issues.

My final solution to me getting the rest I so desperately needed, (since I’m breastfeeding, and for many other reasons, it had to be me getting up with him) was co-sleeping. I never really thought I would do it but it’s been my life-saver and has literally changed my life in terms of keeping a small level of sanity. I can’t say enough good things about it in our situation. Sorry to overrun you wtih ideas, but I know hte desperation when you don’t know what to do and need some ideas fast. Please email more questions and more description of your situation and we can try to help as best we can.

[Anonymous]

Wow, so sorry I didn’t see your post til now. the short answer is that YES YES YES reflux can be SO MUCH WORSE at night and I have found that it’s not just me and my baby, but many mothers who go through this. Have you completely cut dairy and soy from your diet to see if he’s MSPI? Oops, I forgot to ask if you are breastfeeding? If you are bottle feeding, try doing a non-dairy, non-soy formula and not giving any solids with hidden dairy or soy for two weeks. THis could be a huge factor for you.

This web-site will explain a lot about MSPI for you:

http://www.disa.com.au/

The longer answer is that my son has horrible sleeping problems related to his severe reflux and for many months his good nights have been your bad nights. My bad nights were waking every 45 minutes or worse with teething, nearly every 30 minutes screaming and needing to nurse back to sleep. I really encourage you to check out ppis, are you seeing a specialist? The husband/habit thing is also really hard to deal with, I hope as you look into this further he will open up to the possibility that your little guy is much more uncomfortable than you might imagine. My little one basically didn’t nap at all regularly until about 8-10 months, when I finally cut all dairy and soy from my diet. There’s more to the story if you are interested, but just know you are not alone, and YES, this should get better, but it might go very slowly. It sounds like you still have a lot of options to look into, so that’s very good. Hav eyou tried using Mylanta Cherry Supreme at night or naptime when he wakes? Laura (hellbennt)’s intro has links to Mylanta dosing, etc. It could really help you. We also used carafate for a while and it was really helpful. Now my little guy is on Zegerid, which we both LOVE, and we just use Mylanta on an as needed basis. He gets out of control crazy with sleep when he’s teething or sick, so watch out for that, it can get so much worse with the teeth. Have you had any testing done? Please write more and I can tell you about some of hte things we’ve tried.

Keep your chin up. No sleep can really make you crazy. I completely understand.