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the only thing that i can think of is that that your parents and the babysitter aren’t telling you what is realy happening??? Not to discredit them in anyway but sometimes they don’t want you to worry and feel bad. I always tell my family that i need to know everything that my dd did when she was with them b/c if they dont tell me then i can’t treat her properly
My boyfriends mom is like that too when she watches Aidan. She says hes an angel when hes with her. Doesnt tell us when he cries, or is irritable, or spits up, or anything. I know shes doing this because I was walking up to her house to pick him up one afternoon and he was crying and very irritable and she still insisted when I walked in the door that he was wonderful. My guess is she might be afraid I wont let her watch him if he is anything but perfect with her.
Ive tried to explain to her that we NEED to know about his bad times with her, but shes oblivious at times….
Id try talking to them.
AidansTiredMom2006-10-16 20:29:29
That could be.
My dh often tells me that Myles pooped while I was gone when in fact he did not because dh knows I get worried when Myles doesn’t poop (he is often constipated) and I may use the thermometer on when I get home.
Here’s another possibilty. Myles had a few periods of time when his vomitting stopped and I was sure his reflux was gone, only to have it return after a week or so. One time he didn’t throw up for nearly three weeks and then it started it again.
Kaelyn used to do exactly the same thing. It would make me crazy!!! She loves to people watch and take in new environments/people, so she always did better in a “different” situation. My MIL watched her several times before Kaelyn started showing her “true” self. She thought that we were just over-reacting like all new parents until Kaelyn had a truly awful day with her. Then she started treating us like we were saints.
She couldn’t wait to hand Kaelyn over to us by the end of that day. Kaelyn also has always done better at daycare. I think that all of the activity there distracts her and helps her forget her discomfort.i know how you feel, my dd would go for days w/o having severe sandifers episodes and then my mom would come to watch her and i would go take a nap. regardless to say i would wake up to my 74 year old mother(who had ten kids herself) screaming that the baby was choking
. I think it’s a mixture of enviromental and other things that we just can’t control although ciggarettes do aggravate so i have heard!!! Jill, you crack me up! YOU GO GIRL! 
I know what you mean about reflux being labled “colic” and that’s why I HATE it when I hear people tell a mother that their baby is just colicy and they have to deal with it. Twice now I’ve helped other Mother’s discover reflux because I pulled them aside, listened to what was going on, and steered them to their doctor.
Here’s an awful story though. I have a co-worker who obviously had severe reflux as a baby. The doctor told her Mom, “you’ve just got a spitter here.” Poor girl was in PAIN her entire life until finally at age 22 she decided she had had enough and she went to the GI. After 6 months of various diets, etc. they were finally going to scope her but before they did that the doctor told her she might want to see a psychiatrist because they thought it was all in her head. Well, they got in there and found that SHE HAD NO VALVE!!!
They figured she had one but years of acid erroded it away! She had a surgery that kind of tied a knot at the bottom of her esophogas to keep the acid down. That held for about 15 years and she just had the surgery again. It is because of this story that I worry about lasting damage from reflux…. And I think my son did have lasting damage by not being diagnosed until he was 10.5 months old. Fortunately though, I think by getting diagnosed he healed but it just took longer than most kids.
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