Hi,
My DD will be 4 weeks old tomorrow - she has been suffering with silent reflux but has started to get herself so upset that she has been sick a few times recently. Thankfully she feeds really well - 4oz every 3 hours, sometimes hungry after 2 hours - and is putting on plenty of weight.
The reflux seems to affect her an hour or so after she's been fed, she will then scream and scream in pain. Sometimes it wakes her up 2 hours after a feed and so she will scream until it's time to be fed again (it is on these occasions that she will sometimes be sick).
She coughs and splutters on the acid / milk in her throat and regularly has very raspy breathing / hiccups etc. I have her moses basket and the crib downstairs propped up on an angle.
DD is on gaviscon but this is having little effect, the GP advice to increase the dose just made her constipated. She was also on aptamil comfort milk but after 2 weeks this just seemed to make her very windy and uncomfortable so I have switched back to Aptamil 1.
Back at the GP's tomorrow - hopefully for some ranitidine.
Anyone have a similar experience? I'm exhausted and feel like I'm going crazy.
Any advice, thoughts etc will be much appreciated! I'm new to mumsnet and forums in general but the advice and support on here seems so good I thought I'd give it a go!
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JennyLouiseKelly · 13/10/2013 11:52
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