meds, crying, weight gain..or lack..

[Anonymous]

ok, my third child MAY be the death of me.

Between the screaming, the worrying, the lack of weight gain.. UGH

Z is 4.5 months, she was a 33w5d baby

born at 5lb 10oz.. today was 11lb 8oz.

She was up to 10%, back down to 3.59%

GI doc has her on Prevacid, Zantac, adn Reglan

She is on Bactrum for UTI, and sees a renal doctor in 10days

She has had an upper GI, the GI wants to wait to see her weight in 2 weeks to see if she needs to be scoped.

They want me to pump, and add a scoop of formula in to increase the calrories.

ugh!

ideas/

suggestios?

[Anonymous]

Was she crying all the time before the reglan? It can cause stomach cramping and irritability. I took my 6 week old off it after watching her cry in pain for 2 days. She is on zantac still, changed her bottles to Dr Brown and it seems to be helping alot. Her weigt gain to me sounds fine.

[Anonymous]

Before the reglan, she screamed like a crazed women, 24/7, s it has definately helped her.

I guess they are looking for .5oz a day, adn she was an ounc shy of that .

ugh, thanks fr the help, she is nursing, but when she does get a bottle, its a Doc Browns.

[Anonymous]

Babies double their birth weight by 6 months. Did they put her on the zantac and reglan at the same time? or Prevacid and Reglan at the same time? I ask because like I said the Zantac was helping my little one they put her on both at the same time but the Reglan was causing her stomach to just rumble, you could hear it, she was fussy and gassy and having massive projectile poops. The reglan is for increased GI motiltiy which is going to cause things to move faster through the GI tract which can cause diarrhea, stomach cramping. It did the trial and error. She was contantly miserable. I was adding cereal to her bottle but that seemed to really not help and she got constipated. So i decided to take her off the Reglan, mainly because I could hear her tummy rumbling after a dose and she was very irritable, I then took her off cereal. She is doing a lot better. The reflux isn’t perfect, but I believe she needs to be on prevacid. There really isn’t the need for reglan unless they have delayed gastric emptying, which they should test for. If they started her on the reglan at the same time as one of the other meds you might be seeing a slight improvement because of the other med but the reglan could be causing her problems, or the reglan could be the reason for the improvement. Like I said it really is trial and error. The other thing that helped was I started letting her sleep on her tummy. She would never stay asleep on her back, she would grunt and moan all night and wake up about every 30 mins. I have her bassinet mattress elevated and using the angel care monitor. I am looking at ordering the Tucker sling and moving her to her crib. Goodluck

[Anonymous]

I thought for sure my third child was going to be the death of me, too. And he’s still twice as much trouble as my other two put toghether.

But serioulsy now, Bactrim can cause a pretty drastic decrease in appetite. I love food and when I was on it I had no interest in eating whatsoever. In fact I considered asking my doc if I could take it long term as a diet pill.

Maybe her eating will pick up once she’s off the Batrim. If not, I’d look into whether her doses are high enough. My son was on Prevacid for a month or longer with no improvement – until we finally got his dose right. Also be sure you space the Zantac and Prevacid 4 hours apart. And give Prevacid on an empty stomach, then feed her 30 minutes later.

[Anonymous]

Your mainly breasfeeding, right? With my daughter, I too was told to put in scoop of formula for her breastmilk bottles (she got two at the sitters). I did this, but it didn’t help. For her, her reflux and resultant pain was what caused her to not want to eat. Once we got her med. increased she ate better and gained weight.

The ped. thought I had a milk supply problem, but that wasn’t it at all. Nor, I’m sure, do you, as you have had other children and would know that.

I don’t know if you have tried cutting out some foods to see if that helps? I had to do the TED for several months, but it helped, and many refluxers are milk/soy protein intolerant, so cutting them from you diet could really help her.

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