New and need some advice

[Anonymous]

I have an almost 3 month old. He rarely spitup until he was 2 months, he is exclusively BF. Since 2 months it has been all down hill. I brought him to the pedi two days ago who put him on pepcid. I have not seen a change.

Here are his symptoms:

-spitting up numerous times between feedings, some times projectile

-gurgling stomach

-drooling

-needing to eat less than every 2 hours

-fussing sometimes at nursing frequently pulling off, crying

-the worse is at night, I elevated one end of the bassinet, but have resorted to the bouncy seat, even though he still wakes up every two hours or less. I can hear him spitting up and swallowing it or spitting it back out. Then he thrashes about. and wakes up.

-during the day he is usually a happy spitter.

Do you think I should call pedi back on Mon and try to get him on something else?

[hellbennt]

check pepcid dose…go to Introduce Yourself Forum and click on top post called Groupie Intro and from there look for ‘Prevacid 101’ even though pepcid is not prevacid, there are links from prevacid 101 to check zantac dose, axid dose and pepcid dose

if spitting up is ‘just’ spitting up, there is no medicine for that.
there is only medicine to stop the pain.

what are stools like? if normal, yellowy/mustardy seedy breastfed baby stools then it might not be diet related.
signs that reflux might be diet related:
if stools are frequently green (SOME green is perfectly normal, just not all the time), if stools are frequently mucousy (again, a mucousy diaper here and there is normal)- mucous can look like: curds, as in cottage cheese, like strings, as in the inside of a banana peel, like snot as in when you blow your nose, like jelly

if stools are green and watery or green and foamy like shaving cream then Overactive Letdown also known as foremilk/hindmilk imbalance my be a factor

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