My son is almost 6 months old and we have been having problems for the past 2 months now. He has this really weird cycle that has left me perplexed and so disilusioned! What happens is that he is doing fine – eating fine in particular. Then he gradually starts having problems. He won’t finish feeds and then it gets progressively worse until he decides to just about quit on food for a day or two. Then he bounces back and is fine for a few days to a week, and then he goes downhill again.
After two of these cycles we noticed reflux seemed to be the culprit (due to the incredible pain he had while eating and we could hear reflux popping up, though he rarely spits up). At that point we got on Zantac. Since then he has had two more “cycles”. We have been to the doctor who said is sending us to a failure to thrive clinic b/c his weight has suffered, but it might take two weeks to get in to see them. We also went to a nutritionist and have him on an intensive probiotic b/c I was on four weeks of heavy duty antibiotics due to a staph infection, but still no change with them. I am off of dairy and have almost no gluten, corn, soy or eggs in my diet (or peanuts).
I am going crazy!! It seems like reflux is at least a factor here, but these cycles (which run about every 2-3 weeks) seem so odd to me. Does any one else have that happen? No one I have talked to has ever heard of this with reflux and I am left to wonder if something else is going on…
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