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[Anonymous]

Cooper is about 4.5 months old, around three months we noticed that his cheeks were getting really red each time he ate, he is only breastfeed. Soon, his stools changed from green and seedy to a more olive brown and very mucusy, then eventually he had little dark lines the size of rice, which were tested and came back negative for blood. The pediatrician, who is an adult allergy specialist, did a skin test for milk, soy, nuts, and chocolate, no reaction to anything. He doesn’t really seem concerned about any of it. But said that if it is in fact an allergy to milk I’ll need to find out before it gets to be a bigger deal. Eventually I gave up dairy, except hidden dairy, not much of a change, so I gave up all dairy and noticed change for a few days. His cheeks tamed down in color and temperature and his stools lost the dark flecks but remained very mucusy. So I gave up soy and eggs. Now, he goes back and forth with the red cheeks, still has lots of mucusy stools, but no dark spots. I am trying to do TED but having a hard time, I have lost about 10 extra pounds and my milk is so clear there is hardly any fat, I am usually a dairy fiend and got all my fat there. Cooper doesn’t really seem any hungrier, but I am worried that he is not getting all the nutrients he needs. At what point is formula a better option than breastfeeding? And on top of all of this, lately he has been waking up around 5 AM and having a hard time going back to sleep. He has slept thru the night since he was about 2 months. He will not nap unless he is being held or if I can lay down with him, and wakes up as soon as he is put down or I try to get up. He is always tired an therefore super fussy, but, there is no pain associated with eating or bowl movements. He does go thru episodes of spitting up more than usual. I just don’t know what to do now. I expected to be able to provide breast milk for him until a year, but now I’m not sure if I am hurting him more than helping him

[hellbennt]

I could not eat tomatoes when breastfeeding jonah! no eggpant or tuna or citrus either….but thankfully, I could eat milk & soy and everything else. weird!

[hellbennt]

ari fell off the charts at his 9 month check up and he was my non-refluxer. dr never told me to quit breastfeeding! je ‘just’ didn’t take much to solids…

is finn eating any solids? add good fats like flax seed oil, olive oil even avocado oil…

[Anonymous]

Finn’s mom wrote: thanks erin… question–how did you know that your supply had dropped? I have never been able to get a huge amount pumping, so I can’t use that as an indicator. Did Evan let you know? I do need to be better about drinking water–I’ve been less vigilant over the last month.

I kno wsomeone who weighed her baby before and after each breastfeeding seesion so she coudl know how much he was taking. She did that for about the first 3-4 months. After that she had BF established and stopped.

Seh bought a cheap infant scale online, not sure where though.

I am sorry the DR is not listening.

Hav eyou ever thought of doing and EDG (scope) there *may* be greating thigs goign on than you think…that would give you spme possible answers.

An EDG was one of the best test for us.

[Anonymous]

My refluxer is having a really hard time with his bottles lately. He is fed breastmilk thru a dr. brown’s bottle, 4 oz every 3 hours. Lately he has been really squirming during the feeding, gulping, and just very aggrevated like. It doesn’t seem like he has a very good suck. He is getting over a dbl ear infection but i don’t think that is contributing to the problem anymore. He does fine at night when he pretty much sleeps thru the feeding. He has the whole proper suck pattern down then but during his day feedings its a nightmare. I saw something on babies being tongue tied and wonder if that could be the case. He has never wanted to take a pacifier. My first refluxer was the same way when it came to the pacifier. They just want nothing to do with it. Has anyone had any experience with the tongue tied issue. Also, i thought about trying to put some rice cereal in his bottle to possibly thicken it, thinking that it may just be coming out to fast for him to swallow. Has anyone incountered any of this? (BTW-Brock is 3 months old and on Prevacid, 15 mg 2x a day–per the wonderful marcikids.com)

[Anonymous]

this is more of a eergh than a boo-hoo!

Well, we’re back in san diego and with a different ped. b/c of insurance change (but didn’t like the last one so much anyway). I thought this new guy was better b/c last week he seemed really interested and open when I told him how the HCl supplements had pretty much stopped Finn’s reflux.

But this week (we had to go back so soon b/c he wanted to look at the prior med. records, but when we got there–he of course had looked at nothing) he suggested we try a two week trial of nutramigen! Here we are at 7 months of breastfeeding (with trials of TED) and he’s telling me that sometimes formula is better for reflux. I argue the point that I’m willing to do TED again and that wouldn’t that be better? and he says ‘not necessarilly”
‘why?” I ask. He says that there are proteins that are just in the breastmilk that the baby can react to!? I haven’t heard of this at all, but realized that we were not on the same page. Then he started getting defensive “I’ve been doing this 30 years…” , and I wanted to cry. Why can’t i find a dr. that is on the same page? I mean we discussed nutramigen with Ped #1 (and we’re now on Ped #4) when Finn was 4 weeks old!
I just feel like we’re back to square one. He actually suggested
positioning. We’d told him repeatedly that it’s not the
reflux that is bothering finn, it’s intestinal pain–and we tried positioning 5 months ago! He then said that the next step would be to try to get him to fall asleep by himself. Well maybe he could fall asleep by himself if he wasn’t in so much discomfort! And lastly, I’m questioning my supply again–b/c the dr.
did–finn’s in the 5th percentile.

Anyway…he still seems better than some of our prior docs because he made a point of saying that ultimately he will do what we want to do. ugh.

update–we see a surgeon on friday b/c the dr. thinks his hydroceles have developed into hernias (which could be causing some of the intestinal discomfort?). the dr. also ordered a full blood profile with a RAST test (although these may not be accurate?). the blood analysis is really for the nutritionist we’re working with…she wants to know about his mineral levels, etc.

Sorry for the ramble…and as always…thank you so much for ‘listening’. I would be lost without this forum.

[Anonymous]

Anne,

This is great news! You have always been so supportive of me in my posts (current & the dark, early days) since we were/are dealing w/ breastfeeding & protein intolerances. I have to agree that seeing the success stories & ‘hip hip hooray’ are really important to read!

Thanks & Congrats!

[hellbennt]

the prevacid takes 2 weeks to ‘kick in’ so if you have any zantac/pepcid/tagament/axid you can add that into the mix, just give 4hrs seperate from the prvacid…

here are some links I saved from sue:

(sue)Allergic to corn- ie no neocate: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9319&PID=81148#81148

(sue again, replying to gina- breastfeeding ingo to (TED)https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11324&PN=1

[Anonymous]

I think it could be worth it, Christine. At worst, it’s only two weeks of the vary strict diet, and then you could start adding the foods back in. You would just need to be hyper vigiliant that you are eating enough calories. I know you are skinny already, so make sure you load up on the olive oil and drink lots of water too.

Would you do the Dr. Sears diet for breastfeeding moms or just try dropping foods first?

[Anonymous]

How high is the med dose, that can make a difference as well.

I am no help in the TED breastfeeding dept. Jedd’s heart defect prevented me form nursing, all though we gave it a good shot.

[hellbennt]

pancreatic enzymes? read through here for more about that;

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11229&KW=pancrease

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11256&KW=pancrease

the following is from here: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11238&KW=pancrease

I *think* that the article says you start the enzymes while on the diet?

Colic & Food Allergy in the Breastfed Infant: is It Possible for an Exclusively Breastfed Infant to Suffer From Food Allergy?

Barbara Schach and Michael Haight

From the Journal of Human Lactation 2002; 18;50

DOI: 10.1177/089033440201800108

http://jhl.sagepub.com

“The first phase of the elimination diet involves the elimination of dairy, soy, nuts, strawberries, and chocolate. The diet may also include the elimination of wheat, eggs, corn, and so on if the first phaseof the maternal eliomination diet does not resolve infant symptoms. The breastfeeding mother also begins taking two pancrease MT-4 strength tablets with each meal and one with each snack. Pancrease is a digestive enzyme that further breaks down fats, proteins &carbohydrates before they enter the mother’s bloodstream. It is theorized that proteins from the mother’s diet that are brolen down before they cross the semipermeable membrane of the breast may be less likely to provoke an allergic response in the infant. This strategy has decreased symptoms of colic, eliminated or greatly reduced blood in the infant’s stool, and allowed breastfeeding to continue without the need to change the infant to a nonallergic formula. Among 16 breastfeeding mothers treated w/ Pancrease at our clinic, 13 have been able to continue breastfeeding , with resolution of bloody stool and a decrease in symptoms of colic. This, however, was not a prospective case control study. the question remeains, “Would these symptoms have resolved spontaneously?” Until we have more studies in this area, the answer is unknown.

[Anonymous]

not to disagree TOO much, but in the days that we used cloth diapers all the time, (oooo, that makes me sound old!LOL!) most poopy diapers in a breastfed baby were explosive and were often preceded by alot of squirming and grunting. and, 4 poops after a feeding isn’t unusual, either. a poopy diaper quite often would involve not just a diaper change, but a change of plastic pants, a change of clothes, a change of bedding, and sometimes a change of my own clothes!!

when he is feeding and squirming—-if he happens to have a bm, does he settle down and eat better?

the wheezy part seems the most concerning to me. is it in his throat mostly, or do you think he is aspirating?

gotta run—i’ll be back!

[Anonymous]

I am so confused about MSPI does this sound like it?

Since about a week old Grant has had nasy BM’s with mucus but I was told that it’s normal for a breastfed baby. He was very restless at night but has since gotten better and actually sleeps. DUring the day he sleeps better in his carseat. He sleeps well at night and rarely cries however, he grunts and struggles on the breast and the bottle, has explosive bright green mucusy bm’s at almost every feed( sometimes 4 w/in 45 mins), wheezy, diaper rash, wet burps, hiccups and spits up. He has been on soy for 24 hours and he seems more uncomfortable and spits up more. I am not sure what to do should I wait out the soy, ask for his stool to be tested, go straight to the hypo formula- I’m just at a loss. The fact that he isn’t miserable is throwing me and making me think I’m making a mountain out of a mole hill. But, feeding him is not this clam enjoyable experience so I know something isn’t right well that and the poop factor.

What should be my first step? I’m trying to read through all the posts but I don’t have that many hours 🙂

[Anonymous]

A couple of things…

1) since you are breastfeeding – what do his diapers look like? Any mucous (looks like snot) in them? Stinky gas? Color?

2) I personally would hold off on the rice cereal until he’s feeling/sleeping better… many GERD babies have very sensitive GI tracts & rice is hard to digest for them

3) Check out marci-kids.com to check their recommended dosage for Prevacid w/ your current dose

I would definitely not CIO until he is feeling better. In my opinion it seems like he is miserable due to intolerances &/or reflux pain. The waking after 10-30 min naps is what sticks out to me.

In the meantime, have you tried babywearing? I would definitely suggest this – esp for an inconsolable, overtired baby. Also, will he sleep in the swing? This works miracles in our house as well.

Hang in there…erinntx2008-12-09 12:36:50

[Anonymous]

I am brand new to message boards but I’m giving it a shot. My little guy is 5 months and diagnosed with GERD, on 7.5 Prevacid 2x day and just started rice cereal at night. He will not nap good – 10-30 minutes if I’m lucky at a time but wants to and needs to approx. every 2 hours. He gets very whiny and I know he’s tired. Sleeps decent if riding in my husbands truck. Every little noise wakes him up – doesn’t matter what it is. At night he will not go to sleep happily and I don’t know if he’s uncomfortable or just overtired. He seems exhausted to me but will not stop crying. Takes a good hour of rocking, breastfeeding, crying, putting to bed 2-3 times before he will actually go to sleep. What do I do? The doctors tell me to do whatever I need to do to get through this and correct any problems after he is outgrown his GERD but I don’t know. How do I know if he’s uncomfortable or just not wanting to be put in his crib? He sleeps on a wedge in a pack-n-play. He has improved in the last 2 weeks with sleeping at night. The GI doctor split his medicine up to to times a day instead of one and that has helped and I think the cereal has helped. He is exclusively breastfed. I am too afraid to let him cry (unless he is just whimpering). I am afraid it will make his tummy upset or his reflux worse when he gets so upset. Help, I am very confused on how to get my poor little guy some more sleep. He has bags under his eyes. I think he just is overtired at nighttime but how do I deal with that.

Thanks,