Reflux signs of night time waking???

[Anonymous]

Lavina – sounds like reflux and aggrivation to me too . .. poor thing just

sounds uncomfortable. Its interesting that you noted that you haven’t

been doing the MSPI thing as well as you used to and the behavior at

night sounds OH SO familiar to me. I breastfed for 14 mo’s and honestly

there was a time that I just felt like a walking pacifier .. .the night wakings

were full of non-stop comfort nursing. Like you I was a little back and

forth on the MSPI thing but it turned out it was the thing that was causing

so much night wakings for us. Once I got serious about contolling her

diet and mine the comfort nursing and the night wakings went down

drastically. I should add that I also had her prevacid upped to the highest

dose and she still needed that high dose even after I got the MSPI thing

under control. You could be looking at a need for a med increase and

possibly a need to control dietary things too.

I really wish the doctors put more stress on listening to our babies rather

than training our babies.. . .I always felt like I was “training” a monster by

“giving” in and getting up hour after hour with her and worse yet feeding

her every time. I was concerned but I didn’t know what to do because I

didn’t think what I was doing was the “right” thing. Sounds like

your doing a great job and I really hope something improves soon – I

know how hard it is to pull allnighters with no end in site. Hang in there –

it gets better, do everything you can do to control diet and play with med

doses if need be and then follow Annes advice as well and think about

other possibilities like hernia if things don’t improve within three/four

weeks on a new regimine. That poor lo of yours sounds like she needs a

break and so do you.

Keep us updated

~Lizlovemysophia2006-2-10 19:5:49

[Anonymous]

Lavina,

I just want to add that since I’ve been on a very strict elimination diet with Lucas’ reflux and MSPI, I’ve tried having milk in baked goods several different times to see what would happen. I make pancakes that call for one cup of milk in the batter. I can have one pancake, but if I have three or four in the course of a day (which I did once) he will be spitting up that same day and suddenly get fussy and become a cling wrap baby.

Doing the diet or changing formula–whatever your situation, keeping the no dairy and no soy very strictly– has really been key for us. It only takes a little bit of these things for some of these little ones to really go nuts. Also, doing the diet very strictly will help you in the sense that you will know for sure that it isn’t dietary issues when the baby gets fussy. Then you can begin by process of elimination, is it the meds, the dose not being high enough, is it something else? etc.

Please continue to ask questions especially if you are bfeeding, as going on the diet was such a challenge for many of us and we can share our ideas to make it easier for you. Hang in there!!

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