First Day of Wean…and Already Nervous!

[Anonymous]

Hi All!

We went to the GI yesterday for a follow-up appointment. Dagney’s been doing wonderfully on the 10mg 2x/day of the Prevacid. She’s been on 4oz. yogurt/day for 2 1/2 weeks, eating hidden dairy for about 2 months now, and has been on soy milk for about 3 -3 1/2 months. At the very beginning of the yogurt, she spit up 3 days in a row, but only about 1-2 tablespoons worth, and that stopped, otherwise, no symptoms or concerns to speak of. SO, at this point, we had 2 options: 1) move forward with introducing milk or 2) wean the Prevacid. We both agreed weaning the Prevacid would be a good thing, I’d really like to get her off of that more than I’d like her on whole milk. The GI said to cut the evening dose and replace it with Axid. We’ll continue with that for 4 weeks, then replace the morning dose with Axid for another 4 weeks, then I think lose 1 dose of the Axid until she’s (hopefully!) med-free. I had asked the GI if there was a difference between getting rid of the evening vs. morning dose, and she said she normally starts with getting rid of the evening dose first.

So, starting today, Dagney’s taking 10mg prevacid (2/3 of a solutab) in the morning, and 3 ml. of Axid at night. Unfortunately, they don’t have strawberry flavor (which she loves from the Prevacid), so I had them flavor the Axid with apple, and she didn’t seem to hate it.

Up until today I was convinced she’d do great weaning from the Prevacid, but now that it’s actually happening, I’m very nervous. She actually woke up at 9pm (she goes to bed at 7). She didn’t make any noise, but rolled around a little in her crib and kep hitting her crib toy, which plays music and flashes lights and getting comfy with her blankie. She’s back to sleep now, but was awake for about 10 minutes. I know it’s not a huge thing, but she has NEVER done that! She normally goes to sleep and stays asleep, or if she does briefly wake up, she rolls over and goes back to sleep. She’s only woken up and hit that darn toy thing in the middle of the night about 5 times in the whole past year. Do you ladies think it’s a fluke, or should I be concerned already?!? It’s probably just an odd coincidence, but I just need reassurance! Sorry this was so long!!

[Anonymous]

Goodluck Denise. You are going to do a lot of second guessing over the next few days, but if it is the reflux it will show itself to you. The good thing is she did roll over and go back to sleep on her own…so it really could have been a coincidence. Crossing my fingers for a med free reflux free Dagney.

[Anonymous]

Denise,

It sounds like a fluke to me. She has done so good with everything else so I would guess she will do good with this. I know about the second guessing, I did that when started the formula switch that we still aren’t done with, but I finally decided just to give it time and see what happens. Hopefully she will be fine, but if not you should know in a few days. Keep us posted.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure a coincidence too. Maybe she just hit it with her foot while rolling over, and the noise woke her up. I hope it goes well. We would love to get Ben off the Zegerid too. He’s down to one dose as well, but we stuck with the evening dose. I’ve wondered about that, but it seems like reflux would be worse at night. Let me know how it goes!!

[Anonymous]

Thanks, everyone! I’m still trying to decide if I should switch it and just replace the morning dose with the Axid. She actually was kind of cranky today, my MIL told me she just started crying and was pulling on her left ear then went down for a nap earlier than normal. She was ok after it, but then started crying again for no reason in the afternoon. She’s kind of cranky right now too, but she’s getting the 2 bottom eye teeth and has a little bit of a diaper rash. hmmm…

[Anonymous]

Don’t want to jinx us, but so far so good…how long do you ladies think it would be if the wean weren’t going to work that we’d know? The other time we tried, symptoms were showing by now. I’m not really seeing any symptoms except her naps at my MIL’s are back down to 30-40 minutes, but hten again, she sleeps well (for her) at home. Her naps have never been great, but at home she’ll sleep 1 hour to 1 1/4 hours. (Maybe I should try giving her some goat’s yogurt before naps and seeing what happens!!)

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