Weight Gain

[Anonymous]

If you are really worried about weight, please speak to your ped about it…. she may well think the weight is fine?? If you are really concerned, you could give Simply thick a trial – it is a thickener – you could use it for half of his bottles maybe? It adds no calories and some babies here have done great on it!

I don’t know why there is so contradictory info there – what our ped and GI said – there are a lot of babies who have ACID reflux, and these babies are happy spitters or can be treated with mylanta or simple H2blocker. When they are fussy and irritable and in pain, it is probably because they have GERD, NOT ACID REFLUX. Then these babies need treatment because long term effects of GERD can be feeding aversions or overeating… They differentiated between reg reflux and GERD – i think maybe that is where a lot of the confusion comes from????

[Anonymous]

Thais, I think that you’re right. I bet our doctors were talking about babies that are actually suffering from reflux (or GERD) not all babies with reflux (since many of them show no signs of pain).

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