I think my baby is ill!

[stacey2404]

Hi Logan is 2 weeks old today and last night he slept for 8 hours! Midnight until 8am! I woke him up and gave him a bottle and he has just threw it up, practically the full bottle! This has happened twice previously and I'm petrified it's not just milk it's like bile in it too. He also didn't have a poo nappy last night.
I've phoned the GP and they are going to try and get me an appointment for today but does anyone have experience of this?

 

[Ella1979]

Hi Logan is 2 weeks old today and last night he slept for 8 hours! Midnight until 8am! I woke him up and gave him a bottle and he has just threw it up, practically the full bottle! This has happened twice previously and I'm petrified it's not just milk it's like bile in it too. He also didn't have a poo nappy last night.
I've phoned the GP and they are going to try and get me an appointment for today but does anyone have experience of this?

If he was overly hungry and fed too quickly, he could easily bring what might look like a whole bottle's worth straight back up (although it looks a lot, it's unlikely to have been the full bottle coming back up). Also, sometimes when they don't wind properly or often enough during the feed they can burp and bring a whole lot up.

As for pooing - babies are all very different and when on formula some of them don't have lots of dirty nappies. For example, my daughter used to have one every other day, but my son has at least 3.

Just to try to reassure you, most babies throw loads of milk back up due to not being winded enough rather than anything being wrong. Your LO is very young to be sleeping 8 hours - obviously it's completely up to you, but I wouldn't be letting him sleep more than 4 or 5 at the moment. Smaller, more frequent feeds can also prevent gulping of formula that can cause air to be ingested and milk to be spat up.

Hope that's of some help xx

 

[stacey2404]

Hi thank you for your reply we took him to the GP who referred him to the doctors as she felt he was very young to sleep 8 hours and not get up himself for a bottle. Paediatrician examined him and says that he is very healthy and seems to just be very content. She says to let him go no longer than 10 hours over night abut formula fed babies can sleep nights very early.
10 hours!! She must be crazy lol! I will be waking him after 6 if he sleeps longer than that overnight.
As for the sickness they watched him take a bottle (Tommee tippee) as I felt he was weezing/gulping they agreed so we changed him to avent brand bottles and my god what a difference! He's taking a bottle properly now thank god!
Feeling much more reassured. X

 

[Toria111]

My baby is 4 weeks old today and is much the same as yours. Shes gulping lots so we changed to dr brown premie bottles which has helped but still having the odd spew where shes bringing up most of the bottle. I've introduced infacol too which has helped. At night shes not too bothered about feeding either. She fed at 9pm, then I woke in a panic at 3:45 as she hadn't woken and fed her then. When did pediatrician say it was ok for babies to sleep through?

 

[Ella1979]

Hi thank you for your reply we took him to the GP who referred him to the doctors as she felt he was very young to sleep 8 hours and not get up himself for a bottle. Paediatrician examined him and says that he is very healthy and seems to just be very content. She says to let him go no longer than 10 hours over night abut formula fed babies can sleep nights very early.
10 hours!! She must be crazy lol! I will be waking him after 6 if he sleeps longer than that overnight.
As for the sickness they watched him take a bottle (Tommee tippee) as I felt he was weezing/gulping they agreed so we changed him to avent brand bottles and my god what a difference! He's taking a bottle properly now thank god!
Feeling much more reassured. X

Glad you got on ok 10 hours seems like an awful long time. I'd definitely wake sooner, but that's probably because I had a preemie who slept long periods then was really difficult to wake and feed (had to strip her down to her nappy to wake her). I found special care seemed happy to feed my daughter every 5 hours but when we got her home and did this she was too listless, so we adopted a 2 hour schedule, increasing to 3 then 4 hours as she got bigger.

I've no experience of a FF baby sleeping through the night until around 4 months old. My son started a couple of weeks ago (just before he was 4 months) and my daughter did it from around 4/4.5 months.

Toria - we were actually specifically told by our daughter's paediatrician not to encourage sleeping through the night until she decided to do it herself. I think if your LO is doing long stretches at night by herself it isn't too much of an issue, as long as she's getting regular feeds during the day.

 

[Mum2betash]

I can't help with the milk and being sick but my lo slept all night her first night home. I felt terrible that I didn't wake her but I was fast asleep myself. I'm glad the drs all say your lo is fine xx

 

[stacey2404]

Thank you everyone he is much better today xx

 

[Jojo84]

my LO is sleeping longer on his own now, but i tend to wake him up if he hasnt had a feed in 5 hours otherwise he jkust gulps it down then ppukes it back up.