LOL, Thais. I think we must have posted at the same time, but I basically re-iterated the same thing that you said. Sorry about that Valerie.
Funny, but Hailey was also on the playtex nurser and that was the only nipple that she could tolerate until she was around 5 months old. The she started to accept the doctor brown’s. I went from the annoying drop-ins, to the annoying “parts” of the DB bottles. But they didn’t change her feeding issues. I think I have a bottle store and cup store at home!
I would say that if you’re heading down the road to sleep feeding then she would benefit from a feeding evaluation/swallowing study- and I don’t mean an upper GI. I mean a feeding assessment and modified barium swallow, usually done by an SLP or an OT. Ask your ped GI to arrange it. Especially if she’s having trouble breathing and sounds congested. You want to make sure that she’s not aspirating. Also, the description you give of her having her mouth open with her tongue hanging out is all the more reason to get a feeding evaluation. It is possible that she has trouble co-ordinating her suck, swallow, breathe or other feeding issues that are not directly caused by reflux.
As for your sanity, I think that typically most babies have a preference for their mother or primary caregiver. That was certainly the case for both my children. So much so in Hailey’s case that if I even handed her over to anyone else, including dh, she would scream and puke all over the place. I knew that every time I would leave her at home, it was inevitable that she would vomit up the entire feed that it just took me hours to get into her. So I became so protective of her that I wouldn’t pass her off to anyone else, and we didn’t get out much b/c of the feeding issues, and as a result, Hailey became afraid of other people. I’m not saying that this will happen to you, and I hope it doesn’t, but I guess I realized a little too late that they also need to learn that other people can comfort them. Thais’ stroller idea is a good one because they don’t even know who is pushing them half the time.
If you do go ahead with the probe, make sure that she is off meds for long enough to get an idea of what’s really going on. Some people say that a week is enough, some people say two weeks, others say just a few days. But some people have had the probes done and only had their kids off for a few days to a week, and then when the probe came back “normal”, they were left wondering whether the child actually had reflux, or whether they weren’t off the meds long enough. Not to give you even more to worry about…
HUGS.
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. i know how you feel with your other child. my son started kindergarten when my dd was born and in the hosp. he couldn’t even attend his first few days b/c of his sister. he started to pretend to choke to get attention and i thought i was going to loose my mind. that’s when i popped the anxiety meds
he got over it though. children are resilient and will get over this. once again i am so sorry and keep me posted on the tests
