Mum insisted on taking Phoebe to a private GP to try and get her seen quicker (we needed a referral for a private paed. I was so upset this morning, my OH said it must be the best thing as it has been upsetting me so much seeing her in pain.
Anyway, we went along and almost straight away she said its classic reflux. She was very surprised that the other GP didn't offer us Gaviscon to try.
So she has given us some for a few days to see if it makes a difference.
Everything, included her snuffly nose and a funny noise she makes in her sleep (a bit like a cat coughing up a hair ball) is because of the reflux. She looked at her weight chart and said well thats why no one has been bothered before - tell me about it.
She told me not to feel bad as the reason it has probably gone on so long undetected is because I've changed things to improve it, e.g. changing her milk, keeping her upright after feeds, trying smaller feeds more often. However I am still finding it hard not to feel guilty. If I still feel the way I have been in a few days I'm going to go to the Docs myself.
Thank you everyone for your advice and support. Will be joining most of you over in the reflux thread now
(This is kind of connected with feeding but felt it fit more in this section)
Phoebe had such bad colic when she was a tiny baby she was screaming from 9am-9pm every day. It was exhausting, Doc didn't want to know, 'yes its colic blah blah' but to me it wasn't normal. I went against his advice and changed the formula she was on to Aptamil Easy Digest. After 5 days this seemed to do the trick.
She's always cried a lot, and struggled to sleep during the day. She's always sick after a feed, when she's laid down, when I sit her up. Sometimes she coughs it up, sometimes it gives / is caused by hiccups. I wouldn't say LOADS comes up every time, but enough. Sometimes she seems to swallow it back down again. She seems to start screaming out of no where sometimes, both my mother and MIL have joked that its almost like someone has pinched her. Generally she sleeps ok at night, but I think this is where she is exhausted as sometimes she goes to bed at 4.30pm and stays there for the night
The situation has gotten worse and worse over the past few weeks. She choked on some sick last Tuesday, it scared me so I took her to the GP who has referred us to a Paed, but is under the impression that she 'is ok.'
Since then we've had hours of crying every day, it is practically as bad as the colic days. She's crying, arching/straightening her back, bringing stuff up for several hours after a feed. By the time she's ok again its time to feed her again. We had projectile sick 2 and a half hours after a feed yesterday. She was lying down on my lap, it came out of nowhere and flew out of her nose as well as mouth. I don't think its just wind, as she's fine in between the outbursts and she's always been good at bringing up her wind. I am trying Dr browns bottles again today in case changing her bottles has made the situation worse, I don't 'think' it has - but the bloomin flow is too slow on them so now she's needing more feeds as she falls asleep.
HV said to me ages ago that it might be reflux, but I think because she was putting on weight ok no one was bothered - in a way I guess neither was I.
I now feel like such a bad mum that this has gone on for 4 months without being sorted out. Its got the point where I hope that they think it is reflux or something else because something is just not right. But then we have days where she isn't too bad and I get paranoid that I'm almost making it up?! I just hope the Paed listens
Its also getting me down to the point where I feel like I am emotionally spiralling a bit. Friday I had a really bad day to the point where if it wasn't saturday yesterday I would have gone to the GP. Today I feel fine and think I was just being silly.
Just getting this written down has made me feel a bit better. Thanks for reading.
Anyway, we went along and almost straight away she said its classic reflux. She was very surprised that the other GP didn't offer us Gaviscon to try.
So she has given us some for a few days to see if it makes a difference. Everything, included her snuffly nose and a funny noise she makes in her sleep (a bit like a cat coughing up a hair ball) is because of the reflux. She looked at her weight chart and said well thats why no one has been bothered before - tell me about it.
She told me not to feel bad as the reason it has probably gone on so long undetected is because I've changed things to improve it, e.g. changing her milk, keeping her upright after feeds, trying smaller feeds more often. However I am still finding it hard not to feel guilty. If I still feel the way I have been in a few days I'm going to go to the Docs myself.
Thank you everyone for your advice and support. Will be joining most of you over in the reflux thread now
(This is kind of connected with feeding but felt it fit more in this section)
Phoebe had such bad colic when she was a tiny baby she was screaming from 9am-9pm every day. It was exhausting, Doc didn't want to know, 'yes its colic blah blah' but to me it wasn't normal. I went against his advice and changed the formula she was on to Aptamil Easy Digest. After 5 days this seemed to do the trick.
She's always cried a lot, and struggled to sleep during the day. She's always sick after a feed, when she's laid down, when I sit her up. Sometimes she coughs it up, sometimes it gives / is caused by hiccups. I wouldn't say LOADS comes up every time, but enough. Sometimes she seems to swallow it back down again. She seems to start screaming out of no where sometimes, both my mother and MIL have joked that its almost like someone has pinched her. Generally she sleeps ok at night, but I think this is where she is exhausted as sometimes she goes to bed at 4.30pm and stays there for the night
The situation has gotten worse and worse over the past few weeks. She choked on some sick last Tuesday, it scared me so I took her to the GP who has referred us to a Paed, but is under the impression that she 'is ok.'
Since then we've had hours of crying every day, it is practically as bad as the colic days. She's crying, arching/straightening her back, bringing stuff up for several hours after a feed. By the time she's ok again its time to feed her again. We had projectile sick 2 and a half hours after a feed yesterday. She was lying down on my lap, it came out of nowhere and flew out of her nose as well as mouth. I don't think its just wind, as she's fine in between the outbursts and she's always been good at bringing up her wind. I am trying Dr browns bottles again today in case changing her bottles has made the situation worse, I don't 'think' it has - but the bloomin flow is too slow on them so now she's needing more feeds as she falls asleep.
HV said to me ages ago that it might be reflux, but I think because she was putting on weight ok no one was bothered - in a way I guess neither was I.
I now feel like such a bad mum that this has gone on for 4 months without being sorted out. Its got the point where I hope that they think it is reflux or something else because something is just not right. But then we have days where she isn't too bad and I get paranoid that I'm almost making it up?! I just hope the Paed listens
Its also getting me down to the point where I feel like I am emotionally spiralling a bit. Friday I had a really bad day to the point where if it wasn't saturday yesterday I would have gone to the GP. Today I feel fine and think I was just being silly.
Just getting this written down has made me feel a bit better. Thanks for reading.
that it took a pivate doc to do it though kick up the backside for you GP
