Can any reflux expert answer THIS??

[Anonymous]

Ok, DD has reflux, pain well-controlled with Zantac. She’s just a big-time spitter.

It seems that DD only spits up when she’s not tired/groggy. In other words, she never spits up in her crib, she never spits up when she’s sleeping or falling asleep, etc.. She doesn’t even spit up with a burp with her middle of the night feed! And this is a baby that spits up ALOT. But if I’m watching her wake up from a nap I can almost GUARENTEE that as soon as her eyes pop open and she fully wakes up, she’ll spit up, even if it’s been 4 hours since her last feeding. you’d figure if she needed to spit up from reflux, it would come up REGARDLESS of her being asleep/falling asleep/being awake/nighttime/daytime. Does anyone know why this happens??? You’d almost be driven to think that the spitting up is somehow in reaction to something she experiences while awake as opposed to it being out of her control???

[Anonymous]

I wonder if she’s just more relaxed when she’s sleepy or asleep so she doesn’t spit up. Then when she wakes up, she moves more and is less relaxed and that causes her to spit up??? I know my son doesn’t ever spit up when he’s asleep or almost asleep either. That’s why if possible I give him his medicine when he’s asleep (through his feeding tube) so he’s less likely to spit it up.

[Anonymous]

I agree I think that they are more relaxed when sleeping or falling asleep. When they wake up there may be some tension on their belly. That’s just a guess but it sounds about right.

[Anonymous]

We have the same situation here. I truly don’t understand it. Kaelyn used to spit up any and everywhere. It didn’t matter whether she was awake or asleep, she was spitting up. But, Alex tends to only spit up when she is awake. She’s never spit up in her crib.

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