Hi all, this is my first time going onto mums net, just really feel I need a big of help.
For a quick background, my daughter is almost 17 weeks old. When first born she wouldn't latch to boob so after a few hours (I tried for days with 1st daughter to no success) I changed to bottle, more for my own sanity as I was in a dark place when bf didn't work out with my first girl.
Anyway, she thrived on bottle for the first 4-5 weeks. Then sporadically she would vomit up whole bottles and scream her lungs out when she would see bottle coming. Went to doc, and he reckoned it was probably reflux so we started gaviscon infant, with varying degrees of success. I took her to a craniosacral therapist twice. She said that her whole skull, jaw and general face was very tight and worked on loosening the joints. I think it made a great difference, but in the last 4 days it had been a nightmare. She screams the second bottle touches her lips, if we lean her forward with our hands on her tummy she is very calm, the second we try to sit her back/lie her back she freaks out. She will rest on my shoulder no problem, very calm (I'm walking around lopsided now!)
The other thing that really makes me think it us not reflux is the fact that she will take a dream feed no problem. So I usually have to wait for her to exhaust herself to get a bottle into her.
She us gaining weight, but it's extremely stressful and can take up to 2 1/2 hours sometimes to get something into her. Very difficult on my almost 4 year old as she is virtually ignored.
Sorry for going on but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this???
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Reflux or maybe not..... Going insane!
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Jood22 · 12/09/2013 20:09
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