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[Anonymous]

Hi every one

Thank goodness I found this site! my 6 week old is displaying some signs which I think may be reflux if I tell you what they are and maybe I could get some advice

she was born at 39 weeks weighing 8pounds 2 ounces. I am breastfeeding totally and on demand, Annabelle has been putting on weight really well but since about week 2 has been waking every hour, grunting and seems to need to pass tonnes of wind out the bottom, wiggles, coughs, sticks out her tongue ALOT! and has been vomiting after evey feed, not alot but everytime now, she screams blue murder after she starts feeding, feeds for about 5 mins and then screams, arches her back, goes red,burps and then vomits. I was at my wits end last week and took her to the doc who said there is nothing out of the odinary and that we have to put up with it and that it is colic, do you think i should take her to another doc? I have just bought a reflux mattress as we are so tired as she wakes every hour and oes not sleep in the day

any advice would be greatly appreciated thank you

[Anonymous]

See another doc. Sounds like reflux to me. Sounds a lot like my little one. The feedings got progressively worse- the first week was fine, second week harder, by around the first month she would feed for about a minute or so, then pull off, arch scream, come back frantically, repeat…

By 6 weeks, she didn’t really want to eat much, and by 8 weeks she would refuse to feed altogether. Interestingly, she never cried to eat, just cried when I tried to get her to eat. Our doc kept telling us it was colic and that she would outgrow it. Problem was that by the time he said reflux (due to the serious feeding problems) it had been going on for 8 weeks, and my daughter was stubborn, and we had a full fledged feeding aversion on our hands. I think that feeding problems due to reflux need to be taken seriously, medicated well and early on, to prevent the feeding hell that we went through. If your doc isn’t taking you seriously then there’s no point in asking him about meds, because he’ll give you a low dose of zantac just to appease you. If you tell us where you’re from, or check out the newbie intro stickied in the introduce yourself forum (there’s a doctor recommendation link), we may be able to link you to a good ped or ped GI. Good luck.

[hellbennt]

hi & welcome!
sounds like reflux to me!
as for the grunting and wind (we call it gas, lol, and lol is laugh out loud, just in case you didn’t know) this sounds like it can be from a protein in your breastmilk- the usual culprits are milk and soy proteins (milk protein is NOT lactose intolerance; it’s extremely rare for an infant to have lactose intolerance- lactose is a milk sugar and what most affects babies is the milk PROTEIN)
how are your baby’s stools? are they ‘normal’ breastfed baby stools, ie: mustardy yellow w/ ‘seeds’ OR are they green and watery or green & foamy like shaving cream? (some green poops are
perfectly normal! just not all the time!)
and/or are they mucousy (stringy like the
inside of a banana peel, curdy like cottage cheese, looks like snot) all of the above can be signs as what is known as mspi (milk soy protein intolerance)

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other signs of mspi:

gas: foul-smelling, painful gas

grunting & straining to poop: looks like she’s
having difficulty passing a stool, but when it comes out it is soft

there are two
‘main’ things that help w/ reflux and mspi:

1) diet (in this case, your diet)

2) medication

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EXPLANATION OF FOOD ALLERGIES/INTOERANCES and their
RELATION TO REFLUX that I have found to date: 2nd post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2697&PN=2

as for medication: http://www.marci-kids.com is at the forefront of research of infants and medications known as PPIs (proton pump inhibitors- they are called prilosec and prevacid here & I think they’re known as losec and zoton where you are)

well, I’ve overloaded you with information!

so glad you found us!

~laura

hellbennt2009-11-21 11:05:31

[Anonymous]

definitely see a new doctor!!!!

[hellbennt]

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from
here:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10607&PN=2

verucalise
writes (2^nd paragraph of the 1rst post on the page)

“On a more
personal note/opinion… I find Dr’s who are open to new ideas,
treatments, anything to help, a great asset to my children. If your
Dr. has a “god” complex, and doesn’t want to listen to you as a
concerned mother… I’d think twice before returning. I dealt with those
kind of Dr.’s for MONTHS, they were unwilling to listen to me about how severe
my daughter’s symptoms were. I switched, and now have a wonderful Dr. who
listens to EVERYTHING. Always a great help, when they are on the patients
side. :)”

hellbennt2009-11-22 18:34:05

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