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[Anonymous]

Hi,

I do think that once your baby has been on TED breastmilk for a long while, just about any new food added back in can shock their little system temporarily. I found that with my Nathan, just about every time I added a new food in (even just a new veggie or fruit), he would have a few bad feedings in a row (that was our main telltale sign of intolerance — arching, screaming during nursing, a few hours after the new food was added). But I eventually got frustrated enough to push forward with the new food for a few days — I can’t remember exactly how long — maybe 5? And then make a judgement call as to how he was doing. A lot of the time, it was just one or two bad days and then he was ok with the new food. Sometimes, though, I did have to cut it out and try again later. By the way, he could handle almost zero protein in my diet for about 7 or 8 months, but he did handle most veggies and fruits just fine. Hope this helps. Hang in there!! It’s stressful I know.

[Anonymous]

hello everyone,

i need some help and instructions on how to go about eliminating foods from my diet. my dd will be born dec 10th and i plan on breastfeeding ( i didnt for long with shane). i want to be extra careful this time with the reflux/mspi.. so i thought i’d do what i can before seeing anything?!? is that silly?

i heard that i should eliminate dairy/soy for a while BEFORE she is born to get it out of my system… is this true?? how long?

do i need to eliminate anything else??

what is ted? i know what it stands for.. but when do you do it? is there a middle ground before that??

and is there some website that tells me what to eat.. and what foods to eliminate first?

thanks~

[Anonymous]

Hey Anne. Ben had severe GERD, but it was greatly aggravated by my OAL. I think the LC is on the right track asking you to block feed… one side per feed. That really helps. I also found that reclining while feeding (on side, or even baby on top of you) helps slow the flow.

One thing that really helped us was to actually take Ben off my breast when the milk initially letdown (and sometimes throughout the feed, as I would letdown a lot), once the milk stopped spraying out, I would reattatch him. He HATED this, but it stopped the choking during feeds.

I did end up doing TED for a LONG time and Ben was on a HUGE dose of Zegerid to help with the Acid, but everything I listed above really helped with the projectile pukes.

Hang in there! Just reading your recent post about the stress and anxiety of nursing a refluxer brought it all back to me. My gut clenched in sympathy for you.

[hellbennt]

Emily, did you ever find out if there’s anything a breastfeeding mother can eat to help ‘fatten’ up her milk?

I know there are things to eat to help your supply, but is it a ‘wive’s tale’ to say that eating more fat yourself (good fats of course, lol) helps makes your milk more fatty?

anyway, colleen, there might be something at http://www.kellymom.com to help?

[hellbennt]

breastfeeding

babywearing

chiropracter (I wouldn’t say this helped, but it certainly did not hurt)

elevated crib mattress

going to a QUACK- a bodytalk practitioner- did NOT work- WASTE OF MONEY

MEDS MEDS MEDS

[Anonymous]

Anne,

I am no expert on this, but blood in the stool I would definitely say was food sensitivity related. But I don’t think that projectile vomiting necessarily is. I think that from what I have read the projectile is more likely to be the pyloric stenosis or OAL. If he is trying to help but has no clue I would tell him just to be supportive and zip it lol. I really wouldn’t say it that way (although that is what I did say to my DH..we had blood in the stool with McKenzie too. ) But really the best thing he can do is be supportive.. 🙂 Guys just don’t understand how emotional breastfeeding is for women, they just see a problem and see formula as the way to solve it. Keep us updated.

[Anonymous]

I asked a few months ago about this book, but noone had read it. Well now I finally found out what it has to say about GERD and I am not happy. I am livid! I will paste what she says, but basically she says that it has been proven that prevacid and prilosec and drugs like them do not work. Of course they don’t work when your not giving them correctly. I’m going to past what she says and you ladies tell me what you think. Also do you think if I e-mail the woman it will make any difference? It irritates me to no end that moms will read this book thinking it is going to answer their questions only to find they have no hope. Don’t get me wrong she is right on with some stuff, but way off in that diet is the cure all. I did TED with Justice and while it helped a little it did not cure him. ZEGERID did.

Infant colic and reflux are distressing for both parents and baby but they can be relieved without drugs. Colic is a symptom of reflux or other eating problems. When is crying considered colic?

Consolable When crying is easily consolable with carrying and affection, then that is just what baby needs.

Inconsolable When crying is frequently inconsolable, beyond athletic bouncing sessions and extreme distraction techniques, one needs to look for something that is regularly causing pain. We are often given a “diagnosis” of colic, or more commonly today, reflux or GERD for the frequently long-crying baby.

Natural Colic Care: Professional Help for Colic, GERD and some other Infant Health Challenges, Breastfeeding, Nutrition & Natural Parenting Challenges
Telephone or E-Mail Consultations

What is colic? It’s a baby who cries a lot. At least that’s what we’re told, along with assurances that baby will “grow out” of it one day. The attuned parent, often sensing that their inconsolable baby is in pain, desires to do something more than just wait. Often the baby with colic is prescribed sedative drugs with potentially dangerous side effects. While posing risks to the infant, these generally do not address the source of the problem.

Since the development of new expensive drugs for gastric acid reflux, most crying babies are diagnosed with GERD or gastroesophageal reflux disease and prescribed the new proton pump inhibitor drugs such as Prilosec and Prevacid. Parents usually find that these provide little help, if any. Current studies reveal that there is great randomness to the symptoms used to diagnose GERD, that while the drugs will reduce acid in the stomach and esophagus they do not reduce baby’s colic symptoms or other symptoms, and that GERD drugs increase intestinal infections and pneumonia. While the GERD diagnosis and prescription of these drugs is lucrative, it sadly steers parents away from finding real solutions for their baby.

Common Causes In the nursing baby, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, garlic, or spicy foods in mother’s diet often cause uncomfortable gas or irritation. Sometimes caffeine or chocolate are problematic as well.

Number One Cause While not frequently proposed, research proves that the number one cause of colic is intolerance to cow’s milk proteins in the diet of the breastfeeding mother or in formula. Corn, wheat, and soy are some other common offenders.

Other Symptoms Often other symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation, spitting-up, rashes, sleeplessness, or waking with screams go along with this picture. Sometimes chronic stuffiness and ear infections also stem from food sensitivities; again, dairy being the major offender.

The Studies Of the many studies on colic and food reactions, below are the average percentages from those that report actual numbers of recovery. Most use hydrolyzed formulas to “eliminate” cow’s milk proteins, but some harmful protein traces still remain in these. When babies who failed with hydrolyzed formulas were given elemental formulas (all allergenic proteins are completely broken up), 98% recovery was seen over all.

Symptom	Cow’s milk	Multiple foods
ADHD		80%
Colic	67%	84%
Adding elemental diet recoveries for Colic		98%
Constipation	71%
Chronic ear infections		86%
Diarrheal diseases		82%
Migraines		93%
Sleeplessness	94%

Weighted averages of cases shown to respond to eliminating cow’s milk or multiple allergenic foods from the diet, taken from multiple studies (presented in the text of Baby Matters). Palmer, 2001.

Finding Out Blood and scratch tests are simply not reliable, and are often negative. Once other, rare medical conditions have been professionally ruled out for the chronically crying baby, dietary trials in search of offending foods will likely provide the solution that is needed. This topic is covered thoroughly in Baby Matters.

Nursing Mother Strict elimination of dairy and other offenders in the nursing mother’s diet will produce better results than elemental formulas, while helping the intestines to heal and maintaining immune protection and other benefits.

Lactose Lactose intolerance is almost never a true problem for a baby. When baby’s digestive tract is suffering from reactions to any food, or recovering from infection, lactase enzyme (that digests lactose) becomes temporarily reduced. Lactose intolerance tests will often show up positive in such a case, but lactose-free formula will only provide a partial recovery and lactose is a valuable sugar for baby’s brain development and immune protection. Mother’s milk is full of lactose. Until very recently, an infant born unable to digest this baby sugar would never live to pass on its genes. The incidence of true lactase enzyme deficiency in a baby is extremely rare.

GER or GERD The recent fad in colic diagnosis is GERD, or gastro-esophageal reflux disease. Food intolerance is well known to cause such reflux, as is stress, (like from prolonged bouts of crying), so we are back to our basic causes for colic.

Other Treatment Options Few parents have found help from the little drops sold for gas. Some may find herbal remedies to help. Acidophilus (not from dairy sources) has been shown to reduce some food intolerance and help re-establish intestinal balance after an assault on the system. There may also be reduction of intestinal reaction with the medically prescribed use of histamine-2 blockers, (like Zantac and Cimetidine), or anti-inflammatory agents, each of which block part of the intestinal assault. There is no substitution, however, for avoidance of the offending agents. When symptoms are merely reduced or masked, health-impairing intestinal assault continues, possibly with life-long ramifications.

Caring for Colic Lots of jiggling often helps to move painful bubbles through baby’s system. Tummy rubs may be responded to positively as well. The general rule for reacting to a crying baby who cannot be comforted is to simply hold them and validate their feelings. Yet when a child frequently suffers from painful bouts of colic, it may be more kind to help distract them from their pain, if and when possible.

[Anonymous]

Jackson was born at 7 pounds. He began projectile vomiting at 3 weeks. At 6.5 weeks, he was only 6 pounds. At that point, I had no choice but to supplement with formula. I am not suggesting that you should supplement, but I all I know is that Jackson’s weight was never a problem since formula. I do not think that it is a miracle, but for us, I think that my supply was an issue. Not sure if it was stress or what, but Jackson took to formula and started to gain weight at a healthy pace. Breastfeeding is definitely best for coating a baby’s throat when reflux is an issue, but for us, Jackson was losing weight and he needed some nutrition. It is a hard decision, but FOR ME, I wish that I had started formula sooner and he had not lost weight over the course of 6.5 weeks. Supply is a rare issue though, so my experience does not always translate well into other situations.

[Anonymous]

Of course, as with everything with babies, there is no easy answer! It could certainly be reflux, since that commonly causes fussy eating. If this is the case, one thing they suggest feeding with the baby on a slant, so their head is above their belly.

However, it can be that they don’t like the flow level of the food. Are you breast feeding or bottle feeding? If bottle feeding, it might be the nipple flow. If breast feeding, overactive letdown often causes fussy eating. My little one, for his first couple of months, would fuss everytime I had letdown. Now that he’s a little older, he gets impatient and fusses between letdowns!

[Anonymous]

thanks jessica,
I’ll try to push the doctor for prevacid, you know when chloe eating/drinking a lot, she never vomit or barely spit up, so I don’t think its the motility issue.
Because when she spit up breastmilk, only spit up clear, or when on formula, she spit up cottage cheese appearance (but when she’s on Zantac, her spit up is formula like).

I just afraid if she keeps on her feeding strike, her stomach will get use to be fed only smaller amount, so its hard for her to recover her feeding…
Thank you for replying when nobody else does!

[Anonymous]

I’ve been posting this couple days.
Chloe is on feeding strike again since last friday, we took of the Zantac on Saturday, we know zantac not working anymore on her.
She starting reduce her intake of breastmilk (pumping) and soy milk since Monday (cut half her intake) but totally on strike on Friday.
She’s not crying, fussing , she just doesn’t want to be fed.
She’s not crying on bottle or anything, she just play with the nipple, thats it.
Since friday she’s only take 4-6 oz/day.
We are going to the doctor today and I don’t know what should I ask.
Chloe is in unique situation , she never cry in pain from the start, she just stop eating/drinking.
So we never really sure what situation with her.
If I ask for the prevacid, which one better? and where can I buy caracream?
And what is DGE? I know is delayed gastric emptying, but how do I know if my chloe has one?
During feeding strike, she could go 12-13 hours without feeding, when I offer her breast or bottle, she just chewing the nipple.
I know she’s hungry since she always move her mouth.
If she has reflux, I would say she the silent one, since she barely spit up.
Please help!!!
I don’t know what to do, any suggestion will be appreciated.
Oh since she off from Zantac, she sleeps through the night (12 hours) when she’s on Zantac, she like toss and turn whole night.

[hellbennt]

I have hypothyroidism (low thyroid) & nodules. I had a BIG SCARE this summer due to growth of a nodule and had to have biopsies (talk about my life flashing before my eyes!). Turns out I am FINE.

also turns out that the growth & appearance of new nodules all happened b/t 2003-now. This coincides EXACTLY with me being preggo and breastfeeding my 2 kiddos. Coincidence? I don’t think so!

I certainly gave my endochronologist something to ponder!!!

I am also a bit of an enigma to him bcse w/ all that I have, it would seem that I would have Hashimoto’s Disease (autoimmune disease) and, well, I don’t. Not yet? Hmm….

maybe you have Hashimoto’s? could it be related to your fibromylagia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashimoto’s_thyroiditis

me & my saving info, LOL! here’s some thyroid info (cannot take credit for this post):

thyroid:

ask to get a full thyroid panel run
& see if you can get the actual number from the TSH test. A lot of docs/labs still go by the OLD scale, where #s up to 5.5 can still be called ‘normal’. The NEW recommendations are not over 3.5. Even though it’s been YEARS since they adjusted the TSH range, some docs still aren’t aware…and many don’t know that the ideal range is 1-2 for most women…

My endo likes to see that one between 0.35 and 2.0. Mine was at 5.4 when my symptoms were starting, some people can get up really high with no symptoms. My (fired)doc told me that my symptoms were normal and nothing that diet and exercise wouldn’t cure. A year later my symptoms had really escalated and I sought a new doctor and was diagnosed and on the road to feeling better and being able to lose that hypo weight if I get serious about it.

[hellbennt]

leticia, if you can I’d try to get back to breastfeeding, if that’s what you want of course! Please please read here:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10133&PID=87611#87611

I would also read up about TED https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=43

this is a diet that essentially makes your milk like a formula that is very very broken down and safe for babies with allergies or intolerances to milk and/or soy.

there’s a lot to read

grunting & congestion are big red flags that it’s something in your diet that is affecting your baby- don’t worry! there’s hope!

you also might want to post your own topic so that this will be seen by everyone…this post was started by momof3angels and has been ‘about’ helping her…but OF COURSE WE ALL WANT TO HELP YOU!!!!! I have to dash off to work but if anyone wants to post how to start a new topic, etc, that would be great! THANKS!

see you on another post

[Anonymous]

I would let her sleep. Eli slept like for sleeps alot too and as long as his weight is fine I don’t see any reason to wake him. Also if you are breastfeeding you could always pump so you don’t have to wake her up.

[Anonymous]

I mentioned this in my last post, but I wanted to get some advice from those who have also experienced slow weight gain…
Finn is breastfed and had trouble gaining from the start (reflux, combined with inefficient suck and resulting low milk supply). It took him 4 weeks to gain back his birth weight. He then started gaining 1 oz/day, but this would fluctuate depending on how much he spit up.
I thought we were doing well…still gaining about 1 oz/day, but over the last month (he is now 4 months) he slowed down and only gained a pound in 4 weeks. I feel like this is due to the amount that he is spitting up (huge quantities). He doesn’t have a feeding aversion…although in the past few days with the gap in his meds I’ve noticed him taking in less with some aversion. we’re getting the prevacid capsules today.
My question is…. is this weight gain too slow? Do I need to head to the dr.? I’ve been weighing him at a LC/breastfeeding group.
thanks!