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[Anonymous]

Not sure about “constipative colic,” but I can definitely tell you that both my boys were HUGE grunters early on. I thought it was constipation at first because they would grunt and turn really red in the face, but when they did have a bm, it wasn’t hard. And for both of them, it turned out to be due to protein intolerances. After removing the offending proteins from my diet (breastfeeding), like milk, soy, and other, the grunting completely stopped (and also 99% of the gas). We still needed a high dose of Prevacid for the reflux, though, to fully have a happy baby each time.

I think I saw from your other post that you’re going to be experimenting with other formulas soon? Definitely ask the doc about possible protein intolerances when you mention the grunting.

[Anonymous]

tosha1183 wrote: Ok, thanks for the help. I am going to keep him on the Similac. I called Walgreens today and they have the thickining stuff so I am going to try that. I just dont want the cereal to get him all backed up and gassy. I also am going to talk to the Dr on Tuesday when we go back about getting him on the correct dose. Thanks again for all the help!!!! O another thing does anyone have a baby like I do that is always grunting and trying to poop. Even if he has pooped he still grunts and his face turns red. Sometimes he even gets fussy like it hurts.

YES, our baby is just like that. She is getting much better over the last 3 days & we are doing several thing at once. Just started Prevacid, started probiotics about a week ago, and my wife is completely off of dairy. So it could be one or a combination of all three. We’re also much more careful about putting her on her back after eating. We always elevate her almost straight up for at least 30 minutes after feeding. She is still grunting and turning red while trying to poop or is gassy, she has explosive huge poops about 2x/day which is strange for a breastfed baby, but she is on lots of meds. She also takes colic calm which we think makes her pooping much easier, but runnier too.

[Anonymous]

Ok, my two cents… as a breastfeeding momma, the solutabs about drove me to the nuthouse. It was IMPOSSIBLE to time it correctly and get him to eat a full feed when I needed him too. It was too much for me to handle. We moved to Zegerid, which can be given whenever, but your compounded Prilosec works the same way and can be given whenever too. I would just double check to make sure they are making it correctly. It is possible that if they ARE making it correctly, the extra sodium bicarb could cause her to have gas. I would use the Mylanta to help with this.

If you should decide to go to the solutab, the best way to go is to give it 3 times/day. Marci-kids recommends this because babies metabolize the meds so fast, that the med doesn’t stay in their systems nearly as long as it does for us. AGain, the timing is a bear, but I would do it AT LEAST 2 times a day. One really won’t cover her for the whole day. Maybe you could do it twice a day and then keep using the Pepcid Complete as well.

As far as dosings go. I know 30 mgs. sounds like a ton, but many, many babies aren’t comfortable until they are on a HIGH dose.. my son was taking 48 mgs of Zegerid each day from about 4 months of age until he was a year. That’s really high, but it took that much for him to be comfortable. If you are worried, try emailing Dr. Phillips… from marci-kids.. he will respond. He’s great.. very busy man, so the email will be short and to the point, but he knows his stuff!

Also, I know you are trying to do one change at a time, and that’s a good thing, but the I would suggest that your wife start keeping a food diary. I know you mentioned that she wasn’t ready to really start cutting foods yet, but just keeping track of her food and babies’ reaction, may help you figure out when her fussier times are and if they are possibly food related. What your wife eats will typically be in her breast milk about 3-4 hours later.

HTH!!

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your reply’s.

Our baby, Brady, is still in the NICU and he is on reglan and zantac. I’m not sure of the doses, but they are starting to give him more zantac.

The doctor says there is no chance that he will get any brain damage from his apnea episodes. But I still worry, greatly.

We’ve had, what seems to be about 50 different nurses. Each seems to have a different way of doing certain things. They are adding rice cereal to the breast milk which makes the milk thicker, so it requires a special nipple (which the hospital does not have) or a slit in the regular nipple with a knife. One of the nurses refuses to slit the nipple b/c she is affraid that it’s going to “drown” Brady in milk. But the others don’t have a problem with doing it and the feeds go fine. I go, with my wife, to all of the feeds b/c I can’t stand the thought of not being at the hospital when something is happening (i shouldn’t say ALL the feeds, but pretty close). But this nurse refuses to slit the nipple more than a teeny little bit and no milk comes out. It makes Brady suck and suck and suck and he doesn’t get anything. She says that he is just ‘not hungry’, but I don’t believe it. He still needs nurishment. She said that at the next feeding he is going to be tube fed if he doesn’t take the milk. I am very frustrated and I know he doesn’t need to be fed like that.

I apologize to kind of vent in this forum, but i feel better after typing that.

Did any of you have trouble with the thickness of the feeding?

Marc

[Anonymous]

I am the mother of 3 month old Hayden Rose. She is breastfed 90% of the time and fed Gentlese the other 10%, when I don’t have any pumped.

My 2 year old had simular problems when he was an infant. He was controlled with Nexium (i think), Dr. Browns bottles and Gentlese. (not breastfed)

H.R. doesn’t spit up and doesn’t mind being on her back, usually. She could be sound asleep in the swing or being held and all of a sudden just start wailing in pain, and getting stiff. These outburst can last anywhere from 5-20 minutes at a time.

After trying Axid (1 ml 3xday) for 3 weeks and rice in the bottle and Kayro Syrup for the constipation, I thought we had found a solution. I finally had to go back because the painful cries were back. I haven’t found a pattern yet. We are now on 15 mg previcid solutabs once a day. I am gald to read not to feed for 30-60 because with her first dose I didn’t do that.

Sometimes I can quite her by feeding her, which sometimes seems like I feed her every hour or two because she will fall asleep while eating. I did read where some moms say it soothes their throat.

THe one thing that has become my lifesaver is this sling I got from lucky-baby.com I guess she just likes that close womb like feel, but it usually calms her pretty well and holds her close. (and gives you 2 free hands to do things like type on this message board) if anyone has any other advice to a newbie please let me know. The board is so useful but also very overwelming. One post has 20 links which have more links.

Thanks for listening to me babble.

Angela

[Anonymous]

So my daughter is getting better medically…with the Zegerid, her reflux has improved dramatically in the last two weeks- down to basically rare episodes.

I ended up weaning her because I was coming back to work and being up all night + work + breastfeeding was too much to even consider. We landed on soy because anything milk based (even Nestle) through her into fits. She’s now 12 weeks and over 12 lbs.

Our sleep problems are strange (but don’t seem to be unusual here). She has always had night issues due to poop avoidance and discomfort which basically cause her to wake around 2 a.m. (it keeps getting earlier- it used to be between 3-4). Her doctor gave us Levison for this and we use Miralax in the morning to make sure she’s pooped every day. The Levison has helped with night gas, which she seems to pass fairly easily now (could also be due to age), but it doesn’t make her sleep.

She falls asleep around 7:30, and sleeps until 2 or so (I know this is a good stretch for an infant) but then wakes every hour. It doesn’t seem to matter if we feed her or not- she doesn’t eat much, maybe 2 oz. if offered, but wakes up an hour later regardless. If we go to her and put in the pacifier or pick her up, she falls asleep for another hour.

This is making me feel the waking is more behavioral or discomfort than hunger, but I was wondering if you’d agree. Everything I read says don’t try sleep training until they are healthy…well, she still grunts and moves around and I think it is still discomfort in her digestive tract so I don’t know if she qualifies as healthy…we are dying, though. It’s just so exhausting.

Is it too early to try sleep training? I talked to her GI’s nurse and there is nothing else we can do medically. She is sleeping on a wedge on her back.

Has anyone else with this problem been successful with sleep training?

[hellbennt]

Jonah had severe GERD.

He was (basically) med free at 12 months old.

He was not MSPI (I did the elimination diet when breastfeeding).

[Anonymous]

hcates wrote:

Jill – thanks!! I too feed Zoe in her sleep. I’ve done this for I can’t even remember how long. It got to be entirely too stressful for me at one point that I gave up breastfeeding and went to the bottle. Then I got tired of pumping (I pumped for my DS and swore I wouldn’t do it again but I did) and now we are on formula. We generally do a dreamfeed around 11pm and then she wakes up around 3/4/5am for another feed. When I put her down for naps, if she gets pissy about taking the bottle, I get her to sleep and then feed her. It totally SUCKS but it’s the only way to guarantee that she’ll sustain life.

How old was Landen when you gave him the Lil Dipper? I feel like we are making progress with solids, atleast she doesn’t turn her head anymore, atleast not at first sight of the spoon. I usually give her a spoon to play with while I try to shovel some in and then we are playing dueling spoons…..

We started using the lil’ dipper around 6.5 months old. We had attempted solids before that (around 5.5 months) with disastrous results including screaming at the sight of the spoon. We just stopped solids for 3-4 weeks until he was over 6 mos and then reintroduced with the lil’ dipper. He was much happier to explore with that utensil and his hands. I feel for you. Landen’s daycare never understood. Every day from the time he was 4 months old they thought he should be devouring solids from a spoon like the other 4 babies in his little “class”. They acted like it was my fault, like he was spoiled or something. One lady even said “I am sure he doesn’t nap well b/c he’s not getting solids” (like I was depriving him of food). I had to explain to her over and over that he had acid reflux and was undermedicated and was developing feeding problems and his naptime “issues” were b/c he was uncomfortable and startled easily from other noises in the class. I can’t believe we overcame it, but we did. Hang in there.

[Anonymous]

Hi Lori,

Thanks for helping out, I am feeling so much relief. Let me answer you one by one.

I need help. My son is getting delayed and delayed without eating and diagnosis.

We had feeding issues since he was 3-4 month old while I was breastfeeding and doctor have asked me to eat less spicy food etc., I have done that still he didn’t recover. We were giving him 1 feed with formula, so we didn’t notice it could be formula.

My pediatrician was able to give appointment only once in month, even when I was asking I need you to see frequently, he is not feeding well.

He was 3.4 kg when he was born, and he was gaining weight and no problem until he was 5 month old. He was 6.0kg at 5 month and then his weight incremental was low. He never lost any weight, so initially when I was complaining my pediatrician was only focused on low weight gain and she have given us Nestle gentle ease formula and then he was worst on that formula then she had put us back again on Enfamil and told us to weight for another month.

Then at 7 month he was out of the chart for weight and then she told us lets see how his development, may be he will be thin person etc…

But I was complaining that he wasn’t sleeping well, he cry for gas and colic ..and doc was recommending always .. lets see after month. Our doc is doing some research at credit valley, so I never get appointment other than 2-3 week and all appointment ended in let’s wait.. she order some basic test and then wait for 1 month.

The I started complaining he is 8 month old and not seating yet, and doc said..lets do various test in blood. and we waited another 2 week. Blood result was normal, other than he have iron deficncay, and my pediatrician first time showed big concern that he is delayed. I was complain since he was 6 month, but then I got answer wait..some babies are different.

At 8.3 month we got referral at credit valley for second opinion and mean time our ped have told us..i had refereed you at sick kid for g-tube because we need to increase his weight. He is only 7.0 kg and 9 months old. Means in last 3-4 month didn’t gain much.

Credit valley neo-natal follow up clinic have given us OT and other help while we are waiting for PEP start infant development program.

Credit valley ped had also given us MRI follow up and do GI assessment at sick kid when we go for tube.

We also have diatian help us..and diatian had found lots of food allergy, because he have so much eczema.. she have put us on nutragim and started one by one solid food again.

But he is still not improving and only 7.4 kg and now he is 11 month old..just seating nothing else.

We go to OT and she is telling us, he is trying but he don’t have energy so work with diatian .. Diatian give me diet chart, but he can not eat that much. He have also trouble eating more than 4 oz milk.. so I hve to wait another 2 hour to give him anything else. He cant eat all together deiatina have recommended food.

The I have complained to diatina, and she has asked to concern with doctor, because he has to eat to gain weight. Meanwhile, we have stoped all food.. only rice cereal and milk and he had bit improved in weight gain and in his responses ..but diatian concern is he need to still eat ..for his development.

I told my ped and and she stated medication, that I told you.. and she told us wait for Pediatric GI at sick kids.. which is we don’t know how long.

We have so much concern with his development delay, he is very leathergic, so feeling helpless..

I go to diatian, she recommend this much to eat for normal development and he can’t and when complain to ped..she said us to wait ..can’t help it.

Meantime, how can i give him more energetic food.. our doc have not done any detail analysis of food aleregy .. have done very basic according to my diatian.

We don’t have done any diagnose for he reflux.. but just his symptoms like neck arching all the time, poor weight gain, bad breathing smell, his seviour achema..crying with gas and stomach pain after all the feed. Etc.

Can you please help us, here is our number 416-619-7575 or email me your contact at binalb@gmail.com

[Anonymous]

Jill – thanks!! I too feed Zoe in her sleep. I’ve done this for I can’t even remember how long. It got to be entirely too stressful for me at one point that I gave up breastfeeding and went to the bottle. Then I got tired of pumping (I pumped for my DS and swore I wouldn’t do it again but I did) and now we are on formula. We generally do a dreamfeed around 11pm and then she wakes up around 3/4/5am for another feed. When I put her down for naps, if she gets pissy about taking the bottle, I get her to sleep and then feed her. It totally SUCKS but it’s the only way to guarantee that she’ll sustain life.

How old was Landen when you gave him the Lil Dipper? I feel like we are making progress with solids, atleast she doesn’t turn her head anymore, atleast not at first sight of the spoon. I usually give her a spoon to play with while I try to shovel some in and then we are playing dueling spoons…..

[Anonymous]

I think waking every three hours can still be normal for some babies at that age. Probably not what you want to hear or what your told by others. I know this is especially true for breastfed babies. Not sure if your breast or formula feeding. I do hope you get some sleep soon though.

[Anonymous]

Hi there.

I’m also in Toronto, so hopefully I can offer you some advise. First, it would help to get a bit more information about your son: his symptoms, when you first noticed issues, any feeding issues, what types of developmental delays, how much of each medication, any tests he’s had done, his age, his weight, and what he eats in a typical day.

Based on the information you’ve given, here’s what I can suggest:

I’m not sure if you have a current GI who has reffered you to sick kids, or if it’s your pediatrician. Either way, I’d have that doctor ask to put you on the cancellation list. This is something that only the doctor can do. We had a 6 month wait for my daughter’s appointment to see a GI at sick kids for evaluation for a feeding tube and further testing. It was a very long wait. If your doctor won’t do it, call the office yourself and ask if they will put you on the cancellation list or what you should do in the meantime. When is your appointment? Who are you going to see? If the appointment is too far away and you can’t wait, then you can always take him to the ER at sick kids, and maybe they will admit him. That way you bypass the wait for appointments and tests and have tests done quickly as an inpatient. The disadvantage is that they might not admit you, and if they do, you have to stay in the hospital.

What kind of testing did your son have done? How did they diagnose him with a food allergy? What is he drinking- formula or breast milk? If it’s breast milk, have you done an elimination diet? If it’s formula, has he tried neocate? What is your dietician suggesting to increase his caloric intake? There are supplements that you can add to food to increase his calories.

If he still has excema then I’d wonder if you should consider stopping solids again, but I don’t know much about it.

Is your dietician from CCAC (home care)? If so, then I’d ask her to refer you for PT/OT/ST for evaluation of his delays. They can offer him treatment in your home to help get him back on track. If your dietician is not from the CCAC, then look up the number for your local CCAC and call and self-refer. You don’t need a doctor’s referral. Just tell them the problem and they’ll get the people to assess him.

Does he have feeding problems? Does he refuse eating/drinking? Arch his back or cry when presented with food? If so, then he may have a feeding aversion. My daughter had this. I notice that you’re on domperidone and ranitidine (zantac). I find that babies with severe refux often need a PPI like prevacid. Ask your doc for the prevacid FASTabs. Your ped can prescribe this. Check out http://www.marci-kids.com for more info about PPIs and dosing. I would personally try for a dose on the higher side, though I suspect that if your doc hasn’t prescribed one yet, he’s probably old school and will give a low dose. The dose has to be high enough to see an improvement. It also needs to be given on an empty stomach and followed up with a meal 30-45 minutes later.

What testing did they do to diagnose the “severe reflux”? I would certainly talk to your doc about doing all the appropriate testing before a feeding tube, if possible. I’d want an endoscopy at the least, but that’s just my opinion.

Good luck to you.

[Anonymous]

My little girl was diagnosed with silent reflux at 8 weeks.

That sounds like my first 8 weeks of breastfeeding – I thought i wasn’t producing enough milk because she never seemed satisfied (i now think she was trying to comfort feed from the pain). She was gaining weight just fine. But she seemed like she was getting frustrated because she violently pulled away from my breast, arched her back, her skin got really clammy and she cried – worse during night feedings (now i think it was because she was sooo worn out and cranky from pain by the end of the day). I thought she was hungry and very gassy (gurgly tummy), but her gas problems never seemed to resolve…? Strong hiccups all the time, but no spitting up, no vomiting. I tried eliminating everything possible from my diet, but it didnt fix anything.

The ped told me about silent reflux. He started us on Prevacid solutabs – dissolved in a tiny bit of water twice daily. She became a new baby in a week or two. By this time, unfortunately, i had given up on breastfeeding because i thought i was doing something wrong and causing her pain 🙁

She is now 15 weeks. She doesnt have problems with poops – so we dont think she has a digestion issue (allergy/sensitivity to dairy), but she definitely has acid reflux problems. I think it is getting worse, and the prevacid isn’t working as well as it was in the beginning. From what i read, reflux normally starts to peak at 4 months or so (about now) – anyways, she recently started coughing alot, spitting up alot and gagging and vomiting from coughing. She is a happy baby right after spitting/gagging/vomiting. We thicken her feeds with oatmeal cereal, and it helps alot. We have to feed her a little bit every 2 hours. She has good days and bad days. She cannot take naps longer than about 30 – 45 minutes – she wakes up startled. BUT she sleeps alllll night long – 10-12 hours. I think she is exhausted from the stress of feeding all day. She sleeps in a fisher-price glider (and i keep a stock of batteries so that it never dies).

She started out like what you described, but then she began the typical reflux symptoms (spitting/vomiting) at about 12 weeks. The Prevacid and thickened feeds make it much more manageable. i hope it doesnt get any worse – i am ready for it to start going away 🙁

I am still learning about reflux. If she continues to get worse we will probably go to a gastro doc. If i were you, i would look more into silent reflux – she sounds like my baby at 8 weeks!

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, another newbie here!

I was just wondering if I could get some feedback about my 8 week old DD here – a friend with a refluxy baby suggested that DD could have reflux.

DD is a very slow and fussy feeder (breastfed) who seems to want to feed all the time – sucking fists, anything she can get her mouth at! Her feeds take at least an hour, and for most of them, after a certain amount of time she will start to squirm, pull off and cry (occasionally scream) and arch her back sometimes, but will obviously be still wanting to feed. This happens mostly late in the afternoon and evenings but sometimes in the mornings too. I burp her often during her feeds but I think she still gets quite gassy as I can feel and hear her tummy rumble often. I’m not sure if being gassy really bothers her though as she only cries during feeds. Sometimes after a burp she will cry when she sees my breast but then if I take her off and cuddle her, she will be rooting around for my nipple. She gets the hiccups during nearly every feed. Her poos are mustardy and not foamy, I eat very little dairy as it makes my tummy play up if I have too much. She has dirty nappies at most feeds.

For a while I thought it could be OAL so I would express a little at the start of a feed. This stopped her gulping quite so much but hasn’t helped beyond that. I’ve tried various wind remedies but they haven’t had much effect, nor do different feeding positions. I’ve tried giving a dummy to her but she’s not that keen on it, if she does take it she soon spits it out and wants to feed again.

She’s a great sleeper at night, anywhere from 10-11 pm through to 6 – 7am. During the day she she doesn’t settle quite as well and tends to wake after an hour, and won’t really settle after 5pm until she goes down for the night.

Generally I think she’s a happy baby, it’s just these dramas with feeding and constantly wanting to feed! I just wasn’t sure if it could be reflux as she’s putting on plenty of weight and I don’t think she’s very vomity, she spits up maybe a teaspoon worth at some feeds but otherwise it’s just possetting. She also tends to settle down a little after a bowel movement.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

– Lauren.Vyctryx2008-04-08 00:42:34

[Anonymous]

I just joined this forum to see if I could get some input on our problem. My 7 week old started Zantac at about 3.5 weeks of age. It somewhat helped alleviate the crying, back-arching and spit up post breast feeding. I’m also off dairy now because we found that supplementing with regular cow’s milk formula and days when I’d eat a lot of dairy caused major spit up.

But now our problem seems to be that he has intense trouble with pooping. He grunts, cries, wakes up at night and generally has a hard time. He will go for a day or so without pooping and then finally when he does it’s very watery. I think it might burn too…more like diarhea. I’ve done rectal stimulation and suppositories – which work…but I just don’t think this is normal.

Any thoughts on whether this could be caused by the Zantac? Does anyone else have this problem?