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[hellbennt]

Hi & welcome! I have a lot to say and most of it’s here:

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

Babywearing: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1044&a mp;PN=1

Prevacid* 101(last post on the page): https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1936&a mp;PN=0&TPN=1

*this includes info about other PPIs, too!* & how/when to administer PPIs & MORE

Sandifer Info, MSPI info, Breastfeeding info (including ELIMINATION DIET INFO) call all be found from main welcome/intro page…as can: finding an GI, reflux & ear infections, Fighting Insurance!, the importance of routine, starting solids, finger foods, YOU NAME IT

reflux what I have learned: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2948&a mp;PN=2

[hellbennt]

so happy for you & your baby! as for starting solids at 6 months- no rush! she has a sensitive system- look for posts about starting solids- I did baby-led weaning (the term weaning is the european term for starting solids- not what we mean as stopping breastfeeding all together!) also known as baby-led solods. my computer fried (, so I don’t have any links handy, but it’s all here

Please tell how you started the probiotics & enzymes [oops! I see that you did!], how did you know how much to take, how long it took to see results, etc..also: will you be giving your baby probiotics & enzymes when you introduce solids? or only if it seems that your daughter is having difficulties/reactions?hellbennt2012-10-07 11:01:17

[Anonymous]

What kind of probiotics are using? Are you also using digestive enzymes? The probiotics can alleviate pain and some reflux but won’t really help with food intolerances. The enzymes are what help break down the food. In my opinion what “food intolerances” really means is that the digestive system is unable to properly break down the food.

As far as how long it will take to see results… a lot of people find that it starts helping with in days but for some it could be weeks or a month.

Did you read the other’s mom’s stories of finding help with probiotics and enzymes on my blog?

http://help4acidreflux.wordpress.com/lorraines-story/

http://help4acidreflux.wordpress.com/federicas-story/

Katie’s story…

first off i want to say THANK YOU for writing this blog. in the midst of what seems like the millionth night of i just can’t take this anymore (lack of sleep, crying baby up all night etc) while googling on my iphone holding my son who i couldnt put down b/c he was in so much pain i happened to see your response to someone on some question on a reflux forum. i noticed your answer and clicked on your link to your blog. i cannot tell you how thankful i am you wrote your entire story with all the details. our story is similiar minus the blood in the stools. i am not sure exactly where to start. i too on my own finally figured out i had to eliminate every single ounce of dairy and soy in my diet while breastfeeding to get my son to quit spitting up. until the age of 6 mo he slept in a moving swing b/c he would spit up or make choking noises gagging if i laid him down at all. finally at 6 mo is when i switched him to nutramigen b/c i just oculdnt take eating that way anymore and amazingly he seemed SO much better. wheni started introducing foods is when things got really bad again. rice cereal results in crying, gassiness, total lack of nighttime sleep unless being held. carrots made him throw up. squash made him throw up. i finally quit foods. then everytime i would try any purreed baby food i would give up after a few days and go back to just nutramigen and he would improve a ton. finally at 10 mo i thought he just has to be eating something (btw my son is 98% for weight and height so people find it really hard to believe hes had all these issues). i began with sweet potatoes and at first he seemed fine. it eventually got to where we spent an entire 8 weeks where i couldnt even put him in his crib. he would just cry. i had to hold him all night long sitting upright. i attributed it to teething and just continued on with foods. then finally i had a moment where i realized i think its the food. so i quit all food and just went to nutramigen and he returned to normal. i fInally threw a fit until his pediatrician put him on prevacid. he kept telling me “he was spoiled and just wanted mommy at night.” after prevacid he started falling asleep every time the car was moving and taking a decent nap every day for the first time ever and sleeping ok at night. in his crib but waking 1-3 times a night for a bottle. that contined until july 2012 and he was about 16 mo old. the only food during this time he seemed to handle well was pears – pureed and an organic cheerio from whole foods (the only finger food i could find with very few ingredients). any time i have added any other food in – he either is up screaming, crying, gassy, arching his back, refusing to lay down….etc… he often throws up after eating a new food.

the crazy thing is this. he has been blood tested and he does not show any signs of allergies. i have taken him in twice again a few days ago we went and i started crying b/c i am just so frustrated. he has been to a pediatric gastroenterologist. who said that i just need to wait it out until he outgrows this. i took him in a second time a few months after the first visit to tell him nothing had improved and to beg him for some advice.

GOOD NEWS: i started him on the digestive health mid july and he has been off of his prevacid since then!!! i have been giving him 1 pill twice a day. i have seen no negative changes since doing that and i am so happy about that. SO THANK YOU! thank you for sharing this. i told our allergist the other day about it and i was so excited, he looked at me blankly and said i dont really see how that would help. (didnt really surprise me at all his response). the only true help i have received in this crazy journey has been from other mom’s stories. and only one dr. ever agreed that soy could be part of the problem.

AND i have been taking it twice a day and it is helping a ton with my heartburn as well. i have also noticed i am able to eat things again that used to make me feel funny and sometimes get heartburn, onions, banannnas are two things!!!

[Anonymous]

Jackie,

Thank you for posting your very interesting information on here! I had never heard of mold causing reflux. I might just have to add a page about that to my blog!

My daughter is 11 months old and I quit breastfeeding at 8 months. I don’t like giving her formula but haven’t known for sure what else to do. My husband and I are thinking of getting our own milk goat! 🙂

I think surely all babies would do better on home made formula.

[Anonymous]

I’m pretty sure I have a breast infection or at least a clogged duct, but the pain isn’t going away, which makes me think it’s an infection. I REALLY don’t want to take antibiotics, because we finally just got my son’s system regulated with the probiotics, and I’m afraid antibiotics will wreak havoc on his poor digestive track.

Has this happened to anyone else? I’m not really sure what to do. I need to feel better, but I’ve read that antibiotics basically wipe out any job probiotics are doing, and the probiotics are doing WONDERS for him.

I know I could pump for a few weeks and not give him any of the antibiotic milk, but that seems like much too much work, and I’m more apt. to throw in the towel on breast feeding if I have to do that.

I’m also terrified to give him formula, because we haven’t given it to him, and I have no idea how he will react. My diet isn’t restricted, but he seems to have such a sensitive tummy that it just scares me.

Any thoughts at all? Please help!

[hellbennt]

Hi & welcome!

research all you can!

you can stop the zantac.

unfortunately it’s a lot of trial & error.

Zantac can be stopped & then you can start back up with it.

It’s extremely weight sensitive and babies also seem to plateau on it.

You need to keep adjusting dose for weight & also keep in mind that after a while it just might not work…

about your diet:

how are baby’s poops?

Reasons a breastfeeding mother might think her baby is reacting to something in her milk:

*poop that is not ‘normal’ mustardy yellow, seedy breastfed baby poop

*mucous in poop; mucous can look like: snot, jelly, cottage cheese, stringy like the inside of a banana

*foul-smelling poop

*stinky, foul-smelling painful gas

*straining and grunting to poop and, when baby finally does poop, it’s soft

the TED (Dr. Sear’s Total Elimination Diet) takes two weeks and then you start adding foods in to see what you CAN eat.

Research all you can! You are your baby’s best advocate!

I have a LOT MORE to say and most of it’s here,

in a link called ‘groupie intro.‘

it’s looong but TRULY will help you-

read through it, refer back to it, scroll through it/skim through it.

You’ll find yourself coming back to it!
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=853

[hellbennt]

Yes! I don’t have the links handy… but look at http://www.kellymom.com

and use the search button on the upper right-hand corner of the page – use key word letdown and search all forums and search 6 MONTHS AND OLDER

I wouldn’t pump…just letdown into a washcloth.

and block feed, like you’re doing.

I also would NOT stop breastfeeding…but that’s ME. If you want to stop, then of course we’ll support you!

[Anonymous]

I’m breastfeeding my 1 month old daughter, India, and I have an over active let down and over supply of breast milk. I’m worried that it is my milk that is either causing her reflux symptoms or making them worse. I had the same issues with my son (now 21 mths old) and in the end, after trying everything to make it work, he went on another nursing strike at 21 weeks old and we stopped breastfeeding. 🙁 I am currently pumping my let down off before I feed and am also block feeding but India still seems to take so much milk so fast. She is then full of wind and when she burps she then brings up acid and that’s when the uncomfortableness and crying starts. I’ve considered expressing and seeing how she copes with a bottle of my milk but it makes me feel sad that I won’t get to feed her. I just don’t know what to do for the best. My husband goes back to work next week and I do not know how I’m gonna manage my little refluxer and my toddler on my own.

We have just started her on Ranitidine with a promise of a PPi off the GP if it doesn’t work.

Anyone got any advice on breastfeeding a little refluxer with an Overactive let down?

[hellbennt]

I would look at diet AND MEDS.

You can always BACK OFF MEDS.

in the meantime, you might have a happy (happier) baby.

mine screamed. mine lost his voice.

I did the TED (Total Elimination Diet) so I know.

hugs!

READ all you can. LEARN and TELL doctors what you want. If you don’t want to stop breastfeeding, then DON’T.

I hate the word colic.

try probiotics?

I think if you would like to pursue the ‘colic‘ route, then read here:
Wondertime article, Colic Solved:
http://wondertime.go.com/learning/article/interview-colic-expert.html

please read:

best EXPLANATION OF FOOD ALLERGIES/INTOLERANCES and their RELATION TO REFLUX that I have found, to date: 2nd post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2697&PN=2

Misconceptions about how Neocate & Elecare work: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6013

Reasons a breastfeeding mother might think her baby is reacting to something in her milk:

*poop that is not ‘normal’ mustardy yellow, seedy breastfed baby poop

*mucous in poop; mucous can look like: snot, jelly, cottage cheese, stringy like the inside of a banana

*foul-smelling poop

*stinky, foul-smelling painful gas

*straining and grunting to poop and, when baby finally does poop, it’s soft

the TED takes two weeks and then you start adding foods in to see what you CAN eat.

Research all you can! You are your baby’s best advocate!

Look for all posts by Erinntx! (be SURE to read her ‘sticky’ – the link is below)

Erin‘s sticky: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12948&PID=105126#105126

More Erin: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13175&PID=106395#106395

Erin post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13576

[Anonymous]

Ok, I desperately need some advice here, so I thank anyone who can help in advance. I am not even sure where to begin. Forgive me if I ramble. I haven’t slept in the six weeks since my son was born. Since night two in the hospital, he was up ALL night screaming. Just thoroughly miserable and the only thing that made him happy and calm was nursing.

After a week of him screaming whenever he was awake, we called his ped. Here’s what was happening: He was rarely sleeping, screaming in pain with gas and tummy troubles, having slimy, stringy, and occasionally greenish diapers, nursing constantly, and just being generally miserable. The ped diagnosed him with reflux and put him on Zantac. He does gag and arch his neck occasionally. He’ll be resting in his swing, and all of a sudden he will just make this horrible, screechy gagging sound. He is also congested constantly, but it’s not anything that I can get out with the nasal aspirator. Did I mention he nurses all. day. long. I am not even exaggerating when I say that he nurses for 45-60 minutes, and within another 45 minutes starts again. This would be a lot less of an issue if I didn’t also have a toddler who requires my attention. He is not happy about this at all.

A week went by and the Zantac didn’t seem to make any difference, and he was still crying whenever he was awake and up all night in addition to the other symptoms. And this is not normal fussiness – it’s blood curdling, purple faced SCREAMING until he is hoarse. Nobody could comfort him but me. I called the doctor and he said for me to cut out all dairy products, which I did. A week later with little change, he told me to also cut out all soy products. Check. A week later we had his one month check up and he told me that since we hadn’t seen a significant improvement, dairy was likely not to blame, but to keep the diet up for another week to give the soy a chance to get out of my system. And I know I wasn’t ingesting any hidden proteins. I was vegan for a few years, so I know how to read the labels. At any rate, he diagnosed him with colic, told us to stop the Zantac, and said if the diet made no difference in another two weeks we should just wean and put him on a hypoallergenic formula.

Two days later, he turned a corner and was pleasant when he was awake and seemed to only have “normal” fussiness. That lasted for about four days. Saturday we woke up to an upset, angry baby again. I had not eaten anything with dairy or soy, but I DID eat corn on the cob Friday night… was it the corn? Surely not. But then again, who knows? We didn’t know and were totally at a loss at this point and felt defeated again. By Monday, he was back to the daytime pleasant baby, although still not sleeping at night (AT ALL) and starting to spit up more frequently. So that has been this week. Generally pleasant when awake with “normal” fussiness, spitting up (more and more frequently), still gagging occasionally, nursing incessantly, and still having major gas pains and yucky, slimy diapers. The fussiness is especially bad at night. The gas keeps him – and me – up all night. He is so fussy and restless and obviously in pain. I would be willing to bet at almost 6 weeks old, he sleeps LESS than 8 total hours in a 24 hour period. He always wakes up screaming and wants to nurse immediately.

I decided to do a trial, and I ate some dairy last night. This morning was OK, but as the day went on, I noticed him getting more and more fussy. Also, his nasal congestion was MUCH more pronounced all day. Around dinner time, he had one of his explosive poops, and lo and behold, it was slimy and half of it was avocado green. I am so upset.

I am at a loss. Is it reflux, protein intolerances? Food allergies? A combination? Just “colic”? Am I overreacting? (That’s how many people have made me feel.) I spend every free minute I have researching on the internet and I am driving myself bananas trying to figure it out. I am tired, hungry, and frustrated. I am really ready to throw in the towel and put him on a hypoallergenic formula – and I really don’t want to. I nursed my oldest until he was 16 months, and breastfeeding is something that I never dreamed I wouldn’t do with my youngest, but at this point, I truly don’t know how to proceed. I suppose we could ride it out for a few months as is, but I feel like he is suffering, my toddler is suffering from lack of attention, and I need to sleep! I am averaging two hours of sleep a day, and that’s just not enough! And I can’t help but wonder how unhealthy this “diet” is for me. Won’t it affect my supply ultimately?

We have an appointment with his ped on Tuesday, and I have a call in to the lactation consultant. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

Does the green diaper mean mspi, or is it just coincidence?

THANK YOU so much. This forum is amazing.

[hellbennt]

I’d say to do the TED because I did it…

there’s a lot of helpful info to get you through!

It’s ‘just’ two weeks & then you can add things back in- & focus on what you CAN eat 🙂

best EXPLANATION OF FOOD ALLERGIES/INTOLERANCES and their RELATION TO REFLUX that I have found, to date: 2nd post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2697&PN=2

THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT:

Erin‘s sticky: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12948&PID=105126#105126

More Erin: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13175&PID=106395#106395

Erin post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13576

Great anne post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9242

More recent post – TED and success also using probiotics

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15293&PN=1

Exposure to foods & blood testing: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12993

Sheri’s allergy/intolerance explanation: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10223&PID=87638#87638

Another Sheri explanation- intolerance/allergy post:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11579&PID=97442#97442

Accuracy of allergy testing & great post by sherri explaining IgE and IgG (intolerance/allergies) https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10815

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

probiotics, brands used:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8970&PN=1

erin posts that mentions enzymes:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12781&KW=enzyme

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12610&KW=enzyme

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12227&KW=enzyme

Post from me:
https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12200&KW=enzyme

[Anonymous]

Hello,

My name is Tiffany and I have a 3 year old son and a daughter who will be 2 months old on Tuesday. My daughter, Isabella, was diagnosed with acid reflux about a month ago. I am breastfeeding, so they started her out on Axid which worked for about a week and a half then just stopped working. My pediatrician tried Prevacid next, 15mg solutabs cut in half, twice a day. That worked really well until today. Her reflux is really bad today, so we have both been crying all day. I am so frustrated because I cannot find any liquid antacid that does not contain aluminum anywhere for her breakthrough pain. To make matters worse, my husband works for seven days far away from home and then comes home for 7 days off and of course all if her episodes occur when he is at work and on the weekend, so I can’t even call her pediatrician. I just had to switch babysitters, I go to college, because her old one couldn’t handle her. I don’t know how to help her. I have tried everything I saw posted on these forums. I am sorry to vent so much negativity, but I feel like no one understands what I am going through. There is so much flashing through my head that I think I am going to have to give up (school, breastfeeding, time and attention given to my son) I would really appreciate any advice, especially anything OTC that can help until I can call her pediatrician on Monday. I have tried tummy time, inclined and upright positioning, adding rice cereal to breastmik, cuddling. Nothing is helping.

Thanks,

Tiffany

[Anonymous]

Hi Laurel,

Have you found some help yet? Blessings as you head down the TED road and try to continue breastfeeding your little one!

1) Every baby has different sensitivities to different proteins. I’m currently on baby #3 doing the TED. My last two have been sensitive to all potato and turkey. I would give it another 2 weeks and see if it doesn’t clear. Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. But after a trial time, if he still doesn’t improve, I would head to eliminate turkey, then see how he does. Poultry seems to give some babies problems.

2) I would definitely start a very safe, hypoallergenic probiotic, like Kirkman’s ProBio Gold if you can afford it. This will help his stool clear faster.

I started the TED when my current youngest was just a week and a half old. It took 6 weeks for everything to begin to clear. Sometimes it just takes them a little while. But the probiotic is a huge help!! Hoping you find some relief soon!

[Anonymous]

Anyone had significant experience with taking digestive enzymes while breastfeeding? I’m on the TED, no new foods lately. Just began probiotics last week and have seen huge improvements in my son’s diapers. However, I have been taking Kirkman’s completely hypoallergenic digestive enzymes for three days now, and both my son and I have had tough reactions (severe nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, increase in congestion and cold-like symptoms, general discomfort, vomitting). Is this a normal response that will soon go away? Something we should stick out and wait for improvement? Or a sign to discontinue use? I don’t think I can handle many more days like this. C-Mommy2012-08-30 23:08:52

[Anonymous]

*sigh* the best I can offer is what I’m going through with DS. I have found the diet to be helpful, I now know that he is MSPI, but also coffee and alcohol are big no-no’s. perhaps it was the chardonnay? I am about to try eliminating things like garlic, onions, peppers, etc just to see, but I feel like there IS no rhyme or reason sometimes. We are currently on 60mg/day of prevacid which I feel like is CRAY high, and we still struggle plenty. DS also wont take a bottle, which now having my second GERD baby, I realize is that breastfeeding these guys isn’t just about food, it’s about comfort. You are there everything right now, and it’s completely and utterly exhausting. Would you consider co-sleeping? This is the only thing saving me right now, is that he nurses off and on all night, both of us sleeping through most if it. This is just my two scents, take it or leave it, but I think colic is a crock. The whole concept erks me. These babies are in pain, plain and simple, and you’re right, it’s all about survival right now. Forget the house, it’ll be a bit for a while. I also have a 2 yr old right now, you don’t even wanna see what my place looks like, lol. Hang in there mama, we’re here for you and it’s nice to know you’re not alone. keep me posted! good luck!